Plagued by fire : the dreams and furies of Frank Lloyd Wright /
Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Out of the Old Testament : August 15, 1914-- Longing on a large scale : 1887-1909. The enigma of arrival ; The lost architect ; Ships on the prairie ; Attended by the Gothic ; Unity and Mamah : the sacred against the profane
- Chains of moral consequence : 1914-1921. Coming before him in his dreams : notes on an Alabama native son ; Connective tissue : one ; The man on the station platform
- Shaking it from his sleeve : the year 1936. Blood and bones ; Connective tissue : two ; In the fourth dimension
- At his father's stone. The sad ballad of William Carey Wright (1) ; The sad ballad of William Carey Wright (2)
- End story : 1950-1959. Terminals (1) ; Terminals (2) ; Last word : for the two Taliesins.