Volume 41, Number 1 & 2 · January 13, 1994
He'd Rather Be Wright
By Martin Filler
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Frank Lloyd Wright
by Meryle Secrest
Harper Collins, 634 pp., $15.00 (paper)
Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings:
edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Introduction by Kenneth Frampton
Rizzoli/The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Vol. 3, 352 pp., $40.00 (paper)
Wright Studies, Volume I: Taliesin, 1911–1914
edited by Narciso G. Menocal
Southern Illinois University Press, 141 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years 1910–1922: A Study of Influence
by Anthony Alofsin
University of Chicago Press, 397 pp., $55.00
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks
edited by David Larkin, by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, text by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
Rizzoli/The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 311 pp., $60.00
Frank Lloyd Wright, Hollyhock House and Olive Hill
by Kathryn Smith
Rizzoli, 228 pp., $45.00
Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House
by Donald Hoffmann
Dover, 118 pp., $10.95 (paper)
Barnsdall House: Los Angeles, 1920
by James Steele
Phaidon, 60 pp., $29.95 (paper)
The Wright Style
by Carla Lind
Archetype Press/Simon and Schuster, 224 pp., $50.00
Frank Lloyd Wright Companion
by William Allin Storrer
University of Chicago Press, 492 pp., $75.00
About Wright: An Album of Recollections by Those Who Knew Frank Lloyd Wright
by Edgar Tafel
Wiley, 326 pp., $34.95
Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect 20–May 10, 1994)
catalog of the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (February, edited by Terence Riley
Museum of Modern Art/Abrams, 336 pp., $60.00
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed. This is especially true in the building art, which, with its large social and political content, is subject to rapidly changing fashions seemingly at odds with the slow execution of architecture, the immobility of its artifacts, and the long duration of its presence on the landscape.
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