Working with Mr. Wright
What It Was Like
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- Author: Curtis Besinger, University of Kansas
- Date Published: May 1997
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- isbn: 9780521587143
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Working with Mr Wright. is a personal recollection by one of Frank Lloyd Wright's former apprentices of his years at the Taliesin Fellowship. Curtis Besinger provides a lively account of daily life in this community of architects established by Wright in Wisconsin and Arizona. An apprenticeship with the Fellowship entailed architectural tasks, such as drafting, designing, and overseeing projects, including the actual building of Taliesin West; as well as humbler assignments - from milking the cows to harvesting wheat - related to maintaining the farm that surrounds the Fellowship in Wisconsin. The social life of the Fellowship, filled with music and film, and planned in detail by Wright himself, is also recounted with wit and humor. Through these engaging recollections, illustrated with photographs, plans, and drawings made during Besinger's years at the Fellowship, Wright's eccentric personality, his working practices, and his unique creative vision emerge, along with a host of personalities who contributed to the unique Taliesin experience.
Read more- Insider's view of working closely with Frank Lloyd Wright at the Taliesin Fellowship
- Covers Frank Lloyd Wright's most productive period - 1939 to 1955
- Also recounts the social atmosphere of the Fellowship
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- Date Published: May 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521587143
- length: 335 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 204 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.82kg
- contains: 110 b/w illus.
- availability: Unavailable - out of print April 2004
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Foreword James F. O'Gorman
Introduction
1. Summer 1939 - visit to Taliesin
2. Fall 1939
3. Construction of Mr. and Mrs. Wright's quarters
4. The Los Angeles trip
5. Migration to Wisconsin - 1940
6. Summer 1940
7. Movies
8. Summer and fall 1940 - work in the drafting room
9. The war in Europe
10. The exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
11. Winter in Arizona 1940–1941
12. Spring 1941
13. The fellowship and the draft
14. Spring, summer, early fall, 1941, in Kansas city
15. Winter 1941–1942, spring 1942
16. Music
17. Spring and summer 1942
18. Winter 1942–1943
19. Spring and summer 1943
20. Interlude 1943–1946 and 'work of national importance'
21. Summer 1946
22. Winter 1946–1947
23. Spring and summer 1947
24. Winter 1947–1948
25. Summer 1948
26. Winter 1948–1949
27. Summer 1949
28. Winter 1949–1950
29. Summer 1950
30. Winter 1950–1951
31. Summer 1951
Winter 1951–1952
32. Summer 1952
33. Winter 1952–1953
34. Summer 1953
35. Winter 1953–1954
36. Summer 1954
37. Winter 1954–1955
38. Summer 1955
Notes
Personae
Sources
Appendix.
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