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Taliesin Diary: A Year with Frank Lloyd Wright
Priscilla J. Henken
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Description for Taliesin Diary: A Year with Frank Lloyd Wright
Hardback. Winner of the Wisconsin Historical Society's 2013 Book Award of Merit, the first publication of the diary of a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice, 1942-43, with notes, contextual essays, and contemporaneous photographs. Editor(s): Leavitt, Sarah. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30 photographs. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 167 x 26. Weight in Grams: 694.
Priscilla J. Henken lived at Taliesin with her husband David as part of The Fellowship, the group of acolytes who made Taliesin an architectural colony from the 1930s through the 1950s. Her lively description of day-to-day life on a communal working farm in south central Wisconsin provides unique insights into the world of Wright during the period and will fascinate Wright enthusiasts as well as those with specialized interest in midcentury architecture; social and spiritual movements; and the clash of cultures represented by two socialist, Jewish New Yorkers and the Midwestern farm community at Taliesin. Henken vividly describes the daily ... Read more
Priscilla J. Henken lived at Taliesin with her husband David as part of The Fellowship, the group of acolytes who made Taliesin an architectural colony from the 1930s through the 1950s. Her lively description of day-to-day life on a communal working farm in south central Wisconsin provides unique insights into the world of Wright during the period and will fascinate Wright enthusiasts as well as those with specialized interest in midcentury architecture; social and spiritual movements; and the clash of cultures represented by two socialist, Jewish New Yorkers and the Midwestern farm community at Taliesin. Henken vividly describes the daily ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393733808
SKU
V9780393733808
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About Priscilla J. Henken
Sarah Leavitt is a curator at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Reviews for Taliesin Diary: A Year with Frank Lloyd Wright
"[F]ascinating, largely because it is candid (albeit often painfully so) and well written."
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