Screen LibraryWright on exhibit : Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural exhibitions /
More than one hundred exhibitions of Frank Lloyd Wright's work were mounted between 1894 and his death in 1959. Wright organized the majority of these exhibitions himself and viewed them as crucial to his self-presentation as his extensive writings. He used them to promote his designs, appeal t...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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More than one hundred exhibitions of Frank Lloyd Wright's work were mounted between 1894 and his death in 1959. Wright organized the majority of these exhibitions himself and viewed them as crucial to his self-presentation as his extensive writings. He used them to promote his designs, appeal to new viewers, and persuade his detractors. Wright on Exhibit presents the first history of this neglected aspect of the architect's influential career. Drawing extensively from Wright's unpublished correspondence, Kathryn Smith challenges the preconceived notion of Wright as a self-promoter who displa |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 279 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691167220 0691167222 |
| Index Number: | NA737 |
| CLC: | TU-867.12 |
| Call Number: | TU-867.12/S653 |
| Contents: | Chicago Architectural Club, 1894-1914 -- The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright, 1893-1930 and Modern Architecture : International Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, 1932 -- Broadacre City, 1935 -- Museum of Modern Art, 1933-53 -- The Italian exhibition and Sixty Years of Living Architecture, 1951-56 -- Coda: 1957-59 -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Frank Lloyd Wright exhibitions, 1894-1959 -- Appendix B. Frank Lloyd Wright models, 1894-1959. |