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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hendrickson, Paul, 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
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.