Frank Lloyd Wright

by Fowler, Penny; Wright, Frank Lloyd

• ISBN13: 9780764920172
• ISBN10: 0764920170
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Pomegranate

Summary

While his contribution to architecture is universally acknowledged, until now Wright's graphic art has been largely overlooked. Author Penny Fowler discusses Wright's work in this area in the context of such art movements as Arts and Crafts, Bauhaus, and De Stijl. Fowler focuses on Wright's designs in books (The House Beautiful and An Autobiography) as well as his work on the Wasmuth Portfolio and his mural designs for Midway Gardens and the Imperial Hotel. Covers Wright created for Liberty magazine are also discussed, considered too radical a departure from the trends of his time to have been published. A succinct review of this important aspect of the architect's work, the ten chapters in the book are amply illustrated and carefully annotated. Exhibitions and publications are included in the last chapter.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction	vii
Experiments and Discoveries	1	(12)
Arts and Crafts: The Art of the Book	13	(12)
International Influences	25	(10)
Chicago, Europe, and The Wasmuth Portfolios	35	(10)
Murals: Midway Gardens and the Imperial Hotel	45	(16)
Japan and Europe	61	(4)
The Wendingen Wrightnummers	65	(10)
Liberty	75	(30)
World Unity	105	(6)
Surveying a Life's Work: Exhibitions and Publications	111	(12)
Conclusion	123	(3)
Acknowledgments	126	(1)
Bibliography	127	(3)
Index	130