Research Catalog

Title

Frank Lloyd Wright : unpacking the archive / Barry Bergdoll, Jennifer Gray ; with essays by Michael Desmond, Carole Ann Fabian, Elizabeth S. Hawley, Juliet Kinchin, Neil Levine, Ellen Moody, Therese O'Mally, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Michael Osman, Spyros Papapetros, Janet Parks, Matthew Skjonsberg, David Smiley, Mabel O. Wilson.

Author

Bergdoll, Barry

Publication

• New York, New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2017]
• ©2017.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
• Gray, Jennifer
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), organizer, host institution, issuing body, publisher
• Avery Library, organizer

Description

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, plans; 31 cm

Summary

Published for a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalog reveals new perspectives on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, a designer so prolific and familiar as to nearly preclude critical reexamination. Structured as a series of inquiries into the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives at Taliesin West, Arizona (recently acquired by MoMA and Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University), the book is a collection of scholarly explorations rather than an attempt to construct a master narrative. Each chapter centers on a key object from the archive that an invited author has "unpacked"-- tracing its meanings and connections, and juxtaposing it with other works from the archive, from MoMA, or from outside collections. Wright's quest to build a mile-high skyscraper reveals him to be one of the earliest celebrity architects, using television, press relations and other forms of mass media to advance his own self-crafted image. A little-known project for a Rosenwald School for African-American children, together with other projects that engage Japanese and Native American culture, ask provocative questions about Wright's positions on race and cultural identity. Still other investigations engage the architect's lifelong dedication to affordable and do-it-yourself housing, as well as the ecological systems, both social and environmental, that informed his approach to cities, landscapes and even ornament. The publication aims to open up Wright's work to questions, interrogations and debates, and to highlight interpretations by contemporary scholars, both established Wright experts and others considering this iconic figure from new and illuminating perspectives.

Alternative Title

Frank Lloyd Wright at 150, unpacking the archive.

Subject

• Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 > Exhibitions
• 1800-1999
• Organic architecture > United States > Exhibitions
• Architecture, American > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Architecture, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Architecture, American
• Organic architecture
• United States

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Illustrated works.

Note

• Published in conjunction with 'Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive', June 12-October 1, 2017, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• Illustrated endpapers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Introduction / Barry Bergdoll and Carole Ann Fabian -- NATURE: The floricycle: designing with native and exotic plants / Therese O'Malley -- Pattern behind the realism: The Jensen graphic / Jennifer Gray -- Little farms unit: Nature, ecology, and community / Juliet Kinchin -- CULTURE: Reframing the Imperial Hotel: between East and West / Ken Tadashi Oshima -- "Playing Indian" at the Nakoma Country Club / Elizabeth S. Hawley -- Rosenwald School: Lessons in progressive education / Mabel O. Wilson -- PROCESS: The final mousetrap: Ornament from Midway Gardens to the V.C. Morris Gift Shop / Spyros Papapetros -- Abstracting the landscape: Galesburg above and below the surface / Michael Desmond -- American system-built houses: Authorship and mass production / Michael Osman -- Do It Yourself: Usonian Automatic System / Matthew Skjonsberg -- CITY: Wrights's Urbanism and the Skyscraper Regulation Project / Neil Levine -- Broad acres and narrow lots / David Smiley -- Reading "Mile-High": The Chicago Skyline and the stakes of fame / Barry Bergdoll -- ARCHIVE: Conserving and exhibiting the New York models / Ellen Moody -- Architectural drawing: Materials, process, people / Janet Parks -- Visualizing the archives / Carole Ann Fabian.

Call Number

JQG 17-892

ISBN

• 1633450260
• 9781633450264

LCCN

2017933712

OCLC

959037938

Author

Bergdoll, Barry, author.

Title

Frank Lloyd Wright : unpacking the archive / Barry Bergdoll, Jennifer Gray ; with essays by Michael Desmond, Carole Ann Fabian, Elizabeth S. Hawley, Juliet Kinchin, Neil Levine, Ellen Moody, Therese O'Mally, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Michael Osman, Spyros Papapetros, Janet Parks, Matthew Skjonsberg, David Smiley, Mabel O. Wilson.

Publisher

New York, New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Added Author

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959. Works. Selections.

Gray, Jennifer, author.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), organizer, host institution, issuing body, publisher.

Avery Library, organizer.

Added Title

Frank Lloyd Wright at 150, unpacking the archive.

Other Standard Identifier

MoMA 2381

Research Call Number

JQG 17-892