The Fellowship: The Untold Story Of Frank Lloyd Wright & The Taliesin Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship - Rilegato

Friedland, Roger; Zellman, Harold

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ISBN 10: 0060393882 ISBN 13: 9780060393885

Casa editrice: Regan Books, 2006

Riassunto

Traces the period in the renowned architect's life from 1932 to 1959, during which he created the Taliesin Fellowship, a sexually fervid and eccentric architectural commune that gave rise to some of Wright's most impressive projects and damaged the lives of scores of apprentices and family members. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Compelling.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“The Fellowship both fascinates and infuriates. You can’t top the material for richness: genius, sex, spirituality, madness, money, mania.” (USA Today)

“[A] blockbuster...packed [with] plenty of sex and surprises. ...This book has a lot of news.” (Capital Times)

“A mesmerizing account of the drama that compelled the great architect...to greater accomplishments...and the cost of that success.” (Ken Burns, award-winning director of The Civil War, Jazz, and Frank Lloyd Wright)

“Authoritative and eminently readable...uncover[s] the sometimes strange, sometimes scandalous, always tumultuous atmosphere in which Wright created his pioneering designs.” (Robert C. Twombly, author of Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture)

“This book replaces Wright the demigod with Wright the man...[A] new—and truer—picture of Frank Lloyd Wright.” (Alan Hess, author of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses)

“Sheds light on the forgotten men and women who played so important a role in bringing...[Wright’s] conceptions to reality.” (Franklin Toker, author of Fallingwater Rising)

“Fascinating...good history. And a ripping read.” (Architect's Newspaper)

“An extraordinary and disquieting tale...that captures the strange, shadowy and all-too-human world that can gather around genius.” (Mark Stevens, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of de Kooning)

“First to treat the Taliesin Fellowship as a whole — its origin, its workings and its inner life.” (Wall Street Journal)

L'autore:

Roger Friedland is a cultural sociologist who studies love, sex, and God. Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and New York University, he is also the coauthor of The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship (with Harold Zellman). He lives with his wife in Santa Barbara, California.

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• Editore: Regan Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060393882
• ISBN 13: 9780060393885
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 689