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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
A Lloyd Jones Retrospective
Author: A Lloyd Jones Retrospective
Author: Inc. Unity Chapel, Inc.Publisher:
ISBN: 9781511870238
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
"Retrospective" traces the family history of Richard and Mary (Mallie) Lloyd Jones, who moved with their children in the mid 1800's from the Black Spot of Wales and eventually settled in the Wyoming Valley, just south of Spring Green, WI. This series of essays, many of which were originally compiled for the centennial celebration of the family's Unity Chapel, explores their Welsh roots, their immigrant path to Wisconsin, and their children's contributions to their new homeland. This is an origin story of a family now widespread, but united through care for their historic chapel and celebration of their shared roots.
Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Sir Charles Lloyd Jones
Author: Lloyd Jones Art Gallery
Author: Lloyd Jones Art Gallery. (Hobart, Tas.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Lloyd Jones
Author: Lloyd JonesBuilding Taliesin
Author: Ron McCreaPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870206370
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
Charles Lloyd Jones
Author: Sir Charles Lloyd JonesThe Colour of Saying
Author: Mary Lloyd JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This volume celebrates the life and work of Mary Lloyd Jones, an artist whose life and vision is rooted in the landscape and history of Wales. The six essays examine different facets of Mary Lloyd Jones paintings and life.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Jonathan AdamsPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786839148
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The story of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona. Throughout his long career, Wright strongly resisted the suggestion that his accomplishments owed anything to earthly influences. As much as he wanted his achievements to be recognised, he wanted them to be unaccountable – but they are not. This book reveals for the first time how his unbreakable self-belief and startling creative defiance both originated in the liberal religious and philosophical attitudes woven into his personality during his childhood – deliberately so by his mother and by his many aunts and uncles, to honour the fierce Welsh radicalism of their ancestors.
Death in a Prairie House
Author: William R. DrennanPublisher: Terrace Books
ISBN: 9780299222109
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright’s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright’s legion of biographers—a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan’s exhaustively researched Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders. In response to the scandal generated by his open affair with the proto-feminist and free love advocate Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Wright had begun to build Taliesin as a refuge and "love cottage" for himself and his mistress (both married at the time to others). Conceived as the apotheosis of Wright’s prairie house style, the original Taliesin would stand in all its isolated glory for only a few months before the bloody slayings that rocked the nation and reduced the structure itself to a smoking hull. Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright’s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Outstanding Book, selected by the Public Library Association