Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy—from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. But the estate also gave rise to one of the most fascinating and provocative experiments in American cultural history: the Taliesin Fellowship, an extraordinary architectural colony where Wright trained hundreds of devoted apprentices and where all of his late masterpieces—Fallingwater, Johnson Wax, the Guggenheim Museum—were born.
Drawing on hundreds of new and unpublished interviews and countless unseen documents from the Wright archives, The Fellowship is an unforgettable story of genius and ego, sex and violence, mysticism and utopianism. Epic in scope yet intimate in its detail, it is a stunning true account of how an idealistic community devolved into a kind of fiefdom where young apprentices were both inspired and manipulated, often at a staggering personal cost, by the architect and his imperious wife, Olgivanna Hinzenberg, along with her spiritual master, the legendary Greek-Armenian mystic Georgi Gurdjieff. A magisterial work of biography, it will forever change how we think about Frank Lloyd Wright and his world.
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Roger Friedland is a cultural sociologist who studies love, sex, and God. Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and New York University, he is also the coauthor of The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship (with Harold Zellman). He lives with his wife in Santa Barbara, California.
Harold Zellman, a historian of modernist architecture and communitarian movements, is the principal of Harold Zellman and Associates, a Los Angeles architecture firm.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Frank Lloyd Wright has been canonized as Americas greatest architectthe man who gave us Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, and dozens of other 19th and 20th century American architectural landmarks. The scandals of his early lifeincluding his multiple marriages, and the bizarre axe murder of his third wife and family by an outraged servant in 1914have long since become the stuff of legend. Yet by far the most bizarre, prolonged, and fascinating period of Wrights prodigious careerfrom 1932 through the end of his life in 1959involved his founding and stewardship of the Taliesin Fellowship in Spring Green, Wisconsin (and later near Phoenix, Arizona)a kind of academy-cum-architectural-firm-cum-communal living foundation he created together with his third wife, Olgivanna. A devotee and former lover of the legendary mystic Georgi Gurdjieff, Olgivanna Wright saw Taliesin as a potential American outpost for Gurdjieff in the United States; Wright saw it as a kind of miniature society in which he could play feudal lorddressing his young and willing apprentices in matching uniforms, demanding that they perform endless physical labor, even intruding into their personal lives in unexpected and sometimes alarming ways. Wracked by dissent, almost constantly bankrupt, the facility nevertheless became the seedbed of some of Wrights most impressive projectsfrom the innovative Johnson Wax building to the unforgettable Fallingwater. After his death, Wrights widow and remaining apprentices quietly conspired to preserve secrecy about the dark side of Taliesin. Now, in The Fellowship, sociologist Roger Friedland and architect Harold Zellman have persuaded dozens of former apprenticesand Wrights remaining daughter, long out of the public spotlightto reveal the truth. The result is a twisted and haunting tale of genius and ego, mysticism and charlatanism, violence, deep sexual dysfunction, and morea magisterial work of biography, one that will forever change how we think about Frank Lloyd Wright. More than a decade in the making, this volume examines the dark story of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship--the sexually fervid and deeply peculiar academy/commune where Wright did some of his greatest work and yet damaged scores of lives along the way. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780060988661