Frank Lloyd Wright - A Biography

Informationen zum Autor Meryle Secrest has written biographies of, among others, Romaine Brooks, Bernard Berenson, Kenneth Clark, Salvador Dalí, Stephen Sondheim, and Frank Lloyd Wright, the last available from the Unviersity of Chicago Press. Klappentext Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends are explored in this evocative biography. Secrest had unprecedented access to an extensive archive of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings and books. "Secrest's achievement is to etch Wright's character in sharp relief. . . . (She) presents Wright in his every guise".--Blair Kamin, "Chicago Tribune". 121 photos. This biography focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures and colourful friends and family. The author had unprecedented access to an archive of over 100,000 of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings and books, and she also interviewed surviving devotees, students and relatives.

Product details

• Authors: Meryle Secrest, Secrest Meryle
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.06.1998
• EAN: 9780226744148
• ISBN: 978-0-226-74414-8
• No. of pages: 652
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art; Architecture, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, ARCHITECTURE / General