Title & Author:

The Nature of Frank Lloyd Wright / edited by Carol R. Bolon, Robert S. Nelson, and Linda Seidel ; introduction by Vincent Scully.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Description:

xxii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Papers presented at a symposium; organized, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, by the Dept. of Art of the University of Chicago, and held Oct. 1984.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[Table of Contents] -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction / Vincent Scully -- 1. Wright on Nature and the Machine / Joseph Connors -- 2. Frank Lloyd Wright's Own Houses and His Changing Concept of Representation / Neil Levine -- 3. Schooling the Prairie School: Wright's Early Style as a Communicable System / David Van Zanten -- 4. Meeting Nature Face to Face / Donald Hoffman -- 5. Architectural Practice and Social Vision in Wright's Early Designs / Gwendolyn Wright -- 6. Frank Lloyd Wright's Other Passion / Julia Meech-Pekarik -- 7. Wright and Landscape: A Mythical Interpretation / Thomas H. Beeby -- 9. The Prairie in Literary Culture and the Prairie Style of Frank Lloyd Wright / Larzer Ziff -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Summary:

"These distinguished essays, noteworthy for the independence and originality of their individual voices and for the complementary perspectives of their varied approaches, offer fresh and provocative interpretations of Wright's achievement. The work of the early Prairie School years is reexamined alongside the dwellings of the later decades, which were designed after the architect abandoned the flat streets of suburban Oak Park and the machine-made world of the city for the rolling, untouched hills of his Welsh ancestors' Wisconsin homestead. These studies present seldom seen sides of Frank Lloyd Wright: the astute businessman; the collector of Japanese prints; the professional practitioner seeking to impose control on his medium in a way that might unite architects in a cooperative effort. But all is not calculation and construction in his work; we are encouraged to see Wright's contribution in terms of another, almost contradictory, characteristic as well: the architect's persistent fascination with unspoiled nature, the pastoral theme that penetrated American life and letters of the late nineteenth century. The Nature of Frank Lloyd Wright places the professional alongside the projects; it describes the conventions and constraints of architectural practice at the turn of the century as it illuminates the prolific and often poetic characteristics of Wright's buildings. Wright, whether planting flowers on a vanishing prairie, constructing craters in the desert, or recreating the remains of eroded landscapes, provided us with buildings that give renewed life to the American myth of Nature as a constant regenerator of both forms and values." -- Dust Jacket.

ISBN:

0226063518
9780226063515

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Criticism and interpretation Congresses.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Critique et interprétation Congrès.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Wright, Frank Lloyd 1867-1959
Wright, Frank Lloyd.
Architecture United States History 20th century Congresses.
Architecture United States 20th century Congresses.
Architects United States 20th century Criticism and interpretation.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Congrès.
Architectes États-Unis 20e siècle Critique et interprétation.
Architecture
Architektur
Landschaft
Aufsatzsammlung
United States
United States Architectural design Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1869-1959 - Critical studies

Form/genre:

Congress
Aufsatzsammlung.
Conference publications.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Bolon, Carol R., editor.
Nelson, Robert S., 1947- editor.
Seidel, Linda, editor.
Scully, Vincent, Jr., 1920-2017, writer of introduction.
University of Chicago. Department of Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 150614
Call No.: NA44.W949.9 B6 1988
Status: Available