[ePub] Medieval Costume; Armour and Weapons (Dover Fashion and Costumes) by Eduard Wagner; Zoroslava Drobnaacute;; Jan Durdiacute;k in Arts-Photography

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The widely admired biographer of Bernard Berenson (“A triumph”—Washington Post; “A perfect riot”—Michael Holroyd; “Astonishing”—London Sunday Times) and of Kenneth Clark (“Splendid; enthralling”—The Wall Street Journal) gives us now a complete and complex portrait of an American titan; Frank Lloyd Wright. Meryle Secrest shows us Frank Lloyd Wright in full scale—the brilliant; outrageous; fascinating man; the giant who changed modern architecture; the standard-bearer for the new; quintessentially American vision; the artist who never; during a seventy-year career; abandoned his principles of design; the radical; the Bohemian—the visionary who was one of the central figures of the twentieth-century American culture; society and politics. Meryle Secrest is the first biographer to have full access to the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. Her life of the architect; more than five years’ work and illustrated with 121 photographs; is a stunning feat of biographical narrative; sustained analysis and compassionate insight. With her extraordinary grasp of the man and his art; she gives us Frank Lloyd Wright close up—a creature of boundless energy and indomitable appetite for experience; a man whose limitless belief in his own rightness carried him through bankruptcy; arrest; fire; divorce; and years of social ostracism. A riveting portrait of a genius.