Taliesin Diary

Author : Priscilla J Henken
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393733808

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Taliesin Diary by Priscilla J Henken Pdf

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. 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 program, from cooking duties to editing the great architect’s autobiography and watching films. The internecine battles of the apprentices and the contentious relationship between Wright, the apprentices, and his third wife, Olgivanna Lazovich, enliven the account. Annotations supplement the diary, and accompanying essays by several scholars explore the cultural history of the period.

Author : Pennar Davies
Publisher : Y Lolfa
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781784613419

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Diary of a Soul by Pennar Davies Pdf

A translation of the Welsh-language classic Cudd fy Meiau by Pennar Davies. The original was published as a weekly column in the Congregational newspaper Y Tyst in 1955. The volume has been long regarded as a classic by many Welsh people and the book records the honest confessions of a deeply spiritual man. Foreword by Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Author : Hugh Howard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781620403761

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Architecture's Odd Couple by Hugh Howard Pdf

In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867–1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (1906–2005) brought down the curtain with his spare postmodernist experiments. Between them, they built some of the most admired and discussed buildings in American history. Differing radically in their views on architecture, Wright and Johnson shared a restless creativity, enormous charisma, and an outspokenness that made each man irresistible to the media. Often publicly at odds, they were the twentieth century's flint and steel; their repeated encounters consistently set off sparks. Yet as acclaimed historian Hugh Howard shows, their rivalry was also a fruitful artistic conversation, one that yielded new directions for both men. It was not despite but rather because of their contentious--and not always admiring--relationship that they were able so powerfully to influence history. In Architecture's Odd Couple, Howard deftly traces the historical threads connecting the two men and offers readers a distinct perspective on the era they so enlivened with their designs. Featuring many of the structures that defined modern space--from Fallingwater to the Guggenheim, from the Glass House to the Seagram Building--this book presents an arresting portrait of modern architecture's odd couple and how they shaped the American landscape by shaping each other.

Author : Jerome Klinkowitz
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780299301446

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Frank Lloyd Wright and His Manner of Thought by Jerome Klinkowitz Pdf

An iconic figure in American culture, Frank Lloyd Wright is famous throughout the world. Although his achievements in architecture are stunning, it is his importance in cultural history, Jerome Klinkowitz contends, that makes Wright the object of such avid and continuing interest. Designing more than just buildings, Wright offered a concept for living that still influences how people conduct their lives today. Wright's innovations in architecture have been widely studied, but this is the most comprehensive and sustained treatment of his thought. Klinkowitz presents a critical biography driven by the architect's own work and intellectual growth, focusing on the evolution of Wright's thinking and writings from his first public addresses in 1894 to his last essay in 1959. Did Wright reject all of Victorian thinking about the home, or do his attentions to a minister's sermon on "the house beautiful" deserve closer attention? Was Wright echoing the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, or was he more in step with the philosophy of William James? Did he reject the Arts and Crafts movement, or repurpose its beliefs and practices for new times? And, what can be said of his deep dissatisfaction with architectural concepts of his own era, the dominant modernism that became the International Style? Even the strongest advocates of Frank Lloyd Wright have been puzzled by his objections to so much that characterized the twentieth century, from ideas for building to styles of living. In Frank Lloyd Wright and His Manner of Thought, Klinkowitz, a widely published authority on twentieth-century literature, thought, and culture, examines the full extent of Wright's books, essays, and lectures to show how he emerged from the nineteenth century to anticipate the twenty-first. Outstanding Book, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers

Author : John Burnham Schwartz
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812980523

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The Red Daughter by John Burnham Schwartz Pdf

Running from her father’s brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin’s daughter defects to the United States during the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel and unexpected love story is inspired by the remarkable life of Svetlana Alliluyeva. “The Red Daughter does exactly what good historical fiction should do: It sends you down the rabbit hole to read and learn more.”—The New York Times Book Review In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of the Soviet despot Joseph Stalin, abruptly abandoned her life in Moscow in 1967, arriving in New York to throngs of reporters and a nation hungry to hear her story. By her side is Peter Horvath, a young lawyer sent by the CIA to smuggle Svetlana into America. She is a contradictory celebrity: charismatic and headstrong, lonely and haunted, excited and alienated by her adopted country’s radically different society. Persuading herself that all she yearns for is a simple American life, she attempts to settle into a suburban existence in Princeton, New Jersey. But one day an invitation from the widow of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright arrives, and Svetlana impulsively joins her cultlike community at Taliesin West. When this dream ends in disillusionment, Svetlana reaches out to Peter, the one person who understands how the chains of her past still hold her prisoner. Their relationship changes and deepens, moving from America to England to the Soviet Union and back again, unfolding under the eyes of her CIA minders, and Svetlana’s and Peter’s private lives are no longer their own. Novelist John Burnham Schwartz’s father was in fact the young lawyer who escorted Svetlana Alliluyeva to the United States. Drawing upon private papers and years of extensive research, Schwartz imaginatively re-creates the story of an extraordinary, troubled woman’s search for a new life and a place to belong, in the powerful, evocative prose that has made him an acclaimed author of literary and historical fiction. Praise for The Red Daughter “Svetlana Alliluyeva’s life was endlessly fascinating, often heartbreaking, and ultimately heroic. I don’t think any writer alive could have told her story more beautifully than John Burnham Schwartz.”—David Benioff, co-creator of HBO’s Game of Thrones and author of City of Thieves “The Red Daughter is an intimate, intricate look at the collision of geopolitics with a private life: surprising and engaging from beginning to end.”—Jennifer Egan

Author : Ron McCrea
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780870206375

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Building Taliesin by Ron McCrea Pdf

Through letters, memoirs, contemporary documents, and a stunning assemblage of photographs - many of which have never before been published - author Ron McCrea tells the fascinating story of the building of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, which would be the architect's principal residence for the rest of his life. Photos taken by Wright's associates show rare views of Taliesin under construction and illustrate Wright's own recollections of the first summer there and the craftsmen who worked on the site. The book also brings to life Wright’s "kindred spirit," "she for whom Taliesin had first taken form," Mamah Borthwick. Wright and Borthwick had each abandoned their families to be together, causing a scandal that reverberated far beyond Wright's beloved Wisconsin valley. The shocking murder and fire that took place at Taliesin in August 1914 brought this first phase of life at Taliesin to a tragic end.

Author : Simon Hollington
Publisher : Simon Hollington
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : PKEY:6610000429394

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Diary of a Mad Yogi by Simon Hollington Pdf

On the day the Beatles Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club, is released in June 1967 - Raphael falls off his motorbike and momentarily dies. In a vision, he sees Shiva, the father of Yoga, and is altered in a way he cannot understand. Diary of a Mad Yogi is a wild ride of spiritual adventuring, through wisdom traditions stretching from the Druids in the north to the Dreamtime in the south. Raf is thrown into the vortex of one overwhelming question: what does it take to know who you are? Simon Hollington’s ecstatic, voluptuous and witty prose takes us through a holographic universe as Raf finds his centre, in the place beyond all his imaginings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Dictionary of National Biography: Stow - Taylor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leslie Stephen,Sir Sidney Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UIUC:30112005373664

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Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen,Sir Sidney Lee Pdf

Author : Ieuan M Pugh
Publisher : Y Lolfa
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784610227

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Dead Man Airbrushed by Ieuan M Pugh Pdf

A novel set in an art college at the beginning on the 1960s. Johannes Taliesin applies for a commission in the RAF, but ends up in an art college where everything and everyone are above his station. He goes insane, at which point the story develops.

Author : Lord David Prosser
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781447734420

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More Barsetshire Diary by Lord David Prosser Pdf

The continuing saga of a member of the gentry. Lord David Prosser has to help the dreaded Edna in her campaign to become a Councillor as well as help raise funds for Diana the Dowager Duchess of Cheam to restore her beloved first home.All this while coping with life in the village and Lady J.

Author : James Gray
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781480943919

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Blood of the Dragon by James Gray Pdf

Blood of the Dragon by James Gray An epic battle has begun involving the fate of the universe. Demonic elements are determined to invade the world’s peaceful inhabitants, enslave and destroy them. These peaceful creatures—elves, dwarves and humans—are led by the two fighting “brothers” and weapons’ masters, Lui Chin and Garth Pendrake, heir of the legendary King Arthur. Can the forces of good defeat the cruel and powerful armies of evil, led by the ultimate evil demon, Dagon? Read Blood of the Dragon and you will find out as you discover every twist and surprise in the elaborate diabolical plot, every flying kick and perfectly aimed shuriken and ultimately hope and romance in this most exciting of adventures.

Author : John Matthews
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0892818697

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Taliesin by John Matthews Pdf

Taliesin, Chief Bard of Britain and Celtic shaman, was a historical figure who lived in Wales during the latter half of the sixth century. His verse is established as a direct precursor to the Arthurian Legends--and Taliesin himself, is said to be the direct forebear to Merlin. The author presents completely new translations of Taliesin's major poems in their entirety, uncovering the meanings behind these great works for the first time.

Author : Alica McKenna-Johnson
Publisher : AMJ Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780999829301

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Children of Fire Series Box Set by Alica McKenna-Johnson Pdf