Up Close: Frank Lloyd Wright

By Jan Adkins

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9780670061389

Up Close: Frank Lloyd Wright

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Considered by many to be America's greatest architect, Frank Lloyd Wright was certainly its most notorious. While his innovative buildings appeared on magazine covers, newspaper headlines followed the tragic series of fires, violent crimes, and romantic intrigues that beset Wright. This biography tells the story of Frank Lloyd Wright's life and traces the development of his work from his apprenticeship during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to the creation of his iconic Usonian homes. It also considers the effect of Wright's work on the way Americans live today. Black-and-white photographs. Author's foreword. Bibliography.

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AR Level 8.6 AR Points 9.0 AR Ready No Canadian Rights Yes Dewey 720.92 Title alpha Up Close: Frank Lloyd Wright Category Nonfiction Middle Pages Count 208 Genre Nonfiction Summary “The thin difference between Wright and an outright swindler was that he didn’t cheat people to get rich. He cared about only one thing: architecture.” This investigation into the personal and professional life of Frank Lloyd Wright, from his earliest days to his death, neither glosses over his personal flaws nor understates the elegance and genius of his art. Topics Architectural schools. Architectural theories. Rogues. Early life of Frank Lloyd Wright. Spring Green, Wisconsin. William Carey Wright (d. 1904). Anna "Hanna" Lloyd Jones Wright (d. 1923). Divorce. Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852). The Gilded Age. The École des Beaux Arts, Paris, France. Architectural working drawings. Louis Henry Sullivan (1856-1924). Catherine "Kitty" Tobin Wright (1871-1959). Marriage. The White City of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The Arts & Crafts movement. The Prairie Style. Furniture. The Larkin Building, Buffalo, New York. Unity Temple, Chicago. Mamah Cheney (1869-1914). Taliesin. Scandal. Fire. Murder. Maude Miriam Noel (1869-1930). Legal problems. The Mann Act. The Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan. Textile block construction. Leaking roofs. Olga Ivanovna Lazovich Herzenberg (1898-1985). The Great Depression. The Taliesin Fellowship. Fallingwater. Taliesin West. Usonian homes. The Johnson Wax Center. Dendriform columns. World War II. Politics. The Guggenheim Museum SRC Level 8.600000 SRC Points 13.000000 Lexile 1030L Trim Size 5" x 7" Language English JLG Release Date Nov 2007 Minimum grade 5 Maximum grade 8 Reading level Middle Format Print

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