Wright and New York : the making of America's architect / Anthony Alofsin.
Alofsin, Anthony, author.
2019
NA737.W7 A872 2019 (Mapit)
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Title Wright and New York : the making of America's architect / Anthony Alofsin.
Author Alofsin, Anthony, author.
ISBN 9780300238853 (hardcover)
0300238851 (hardcover)
9780300256949 (paperback)
0300256949 (paperback)
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Copyright ©2019
Language English
Description 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number NA737.W7 A872 2019
Summary "Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors. Wright denounced New York as an "unlivable prison" even as he reveled in its culture. The city became an urban foil for Wright's work in the desert and in the "organic architecture" he promoted as an alternative to American Art Deco and the International Style. New York became a major protagonist at the end of Wright's life, as he spent his final years at the Plaza Hotel working on the Guggenheim Museum, the building that would cement his legacy. Anthony Alofsin has broken new ground by mining the recently opened Wright archives held by Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art. His foundational research provides a crucial and innovative understanding of Wright's life, his career, and the conditions that enabled his success. The result is at once a stunning biography and a glittering portrait of early twentieth-century Manhattan." -- Publisher's description
Note "Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors. Wright denounced New York as an "unlivable prison" even as he reveled in its culture. The city became an urban foil for Wright's work in the desert and in the "organic architecture" he promoted as an alternative to American Art Deco and the International Style. New York became a major protagonist at the end of Wright's life, as he spent his final years at the Plaza Hotel working on the Guggenheim Museum, the building that would cement his legacy. Anthony Alofsin has broken new ground by mining the recently opened Wright archives held by Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art. His foundational research provides a crucial and innovative understanding of Wright's life, his career, and the conditions that enabled his success. The result is at once a stunning biography and a glittering portrait of early twentieth-century Manhattan." -- Publisher's description
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-320) and index.
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Introduction
Points of departure
Fleeting glances
Nadir
Refuge
Urban visions
Desert dialogue
Spinning tower
Command performance
Pivot point
Wright as writer
Phoenix rising
Zenith
Epilogue
Chronology.

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