Author:
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Index of Art Sales Catalogs, 1981-1985: Main index, January 5, 1981-October 6, 1984
Author:
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The Photograph Collector
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dealers (Retail trade)
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dealers (Retail trade)
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Fallingwater Rising
Author: Franklin Toker
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307425843
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told. When he got the commission to design the house, Wright was nearing seventy, his youth and his early fame long gone. It was the Depression, and Wright had no work in sight. Into his orbit stepped Edgar J. Kaufmann, a Pittsburgh department-store mogul–“the smartest retailer in America”–and a philanthropist with the burning ambition to build a world-famous work of architecture. It was an unlikely collaboration: the Jewish merchant who had little concern for modern architecture and the brilliant modernist who was leery of Jews. But the two men collaborated to produce an extraordinary building of lasting architectural significance that brought international fame to them both and confirmed Wright’s position as the greatest architect of the twentieth century. Fallingwater Rising is also an enthralling family drama, involving Kaufmann, his beautiful cousin/wife, Liliane, and their son, Edgar Jr., whose own role in the creation of Fallingwater and its ongoing reputation is central to the story. Involving such key figures of the l930s as Frida Kahlo, Albert Einstein, Henry R. Luce, William Randolph Hearst, Ayn Rand, and Franklin Roosevelt, Fallingwater Rising shows us how E. J. Kaufmann’s house became not just Wright’s masterpiece but a fundamental icon of American life. One of the pleasures of the book is its rich evocation of the upper-crust society of Pittsburgh–Carnegie, Frick, the Mellons–a society that was socially reactionary but luxury-loving and baronial in its tastes, hobbies, and sexual attitudes (Kaufmann had so many mistresses that his store issued them distinctive charge plates they could use without paying). Franklin Toker has been studying Fallingwater for eighteen years. No one but he could have given us this compelling saga of the most famous private house in the world and the dramatic personal story of the fascinating people who made and used it. A major contribution to both architectural and social history.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307425843
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told. When he got the commission to design the house, Wright was nearing seventy, his youth and his early fame long gone. It was the Depression, and Wright had no work in sight. Into his orbit stepped Edgar J. Kaufmann, a Pittsburgh department-store mogul–“the smartest retailer in America”–and a philanthropist with the burning ambition to build a world-famous work of architecture. It was an unlikely collaboration: the Jewish merchant who had little concern for modern architecture and the brilliant modernist who was leery of Jews. But the two men collaborated to produce an extraordinary building of lasting architectural significance that brought international fame to them both and confirmed Wright’s position as the greatest architect of the twentieth century. Fallingwater Rising is also an enthralling family drama, involving Kaufmann, his beautiful cousin/wife, Liliane, and their son, Edgar Jr., whose own role in the creation of Fallingwater and its ongoing reputation is central to the story. Involving such key figures of the l930s as Frida Kahlo, Albert Einstein, Henry R. Luce, William Randolph Hearst, Ayn Rand, and Franklin Roosevelt, Fallingwater Rising shows us how E. J. Kaufmann’s house became not just Wright’s masterpiece but a fundamental icon of American life. One of the pleasures of the book is its rich evocation of the upper-crust society of Pittsburgh–Carnegie, Frick, the Mellons–a society that was socially reactionary but luxury-loving and baronial in its tastes, hobbies, and sexual attitudes (Kaufmann had so many mistresses that his store issued them distinctive charge plates they could use without paying). Franklin Toker has been studying Fallingwater for eighteen years. No one but he could have given us this compelling saga of the most famous private house in the world and the dramatic personal story of the fascinating people who made and used it. A major contribution to both architectural and social history.
Art at Auction in America
Author: Ernest R. Beyard
Publisher: Frontier Publishing (NV)
ISBN: 9780962492648
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher: Frontier Publishing (NV)
ISBN: 9780962492648
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1712
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1712
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Art in America
Author: Frank Jewett Mather
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe
Author: Thomas James Dandelet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521769930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Examines the intellectual and artistic foundations of the Imperial Renaissance in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy and traces its political realization in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521769930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Examines the intellectual and artistic foundations of the Imperial Renaissance in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy and traces its political realization in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.
Forging the Shield
Author: Donald A. Carter
Publisher: Department of the Army
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
This illustrated book that includes tables, charts, and maps primarily discusses the role of USAREUR (US Army Europe) in rearming and training the new German Army which was perhaps the Army's single greatest contribution toward maintaining security in Western Europe. Likewise, the relationship between American soldiers and their French and West German hosts evolved over time and is a critical element in telling the story of the US Army in Europe.
Publisher: Department of the Army
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
This illustrated book that includes tables, charts, and maps primarily discusses the role of USAREUR (US Army Europe) in rearming and training the new German Army which was perhaps the Army's single greatest contribution toward maintaining security in Western Europe. Likewise, the relationship between American soldiers and their French and West German hosts evolved over time and is a critical element in telling the story of the US Army in Europe.
In the American West
Author: Richard Avedon
Publisher: Harry N Abrams Incorporated
ISBN: 9780810911055
Category : Portrait photography.
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A master of American fashion and art photography turns his artistry to capturing--in a series of photograph portraits--the cowboys, roustabouts, drifters, gamblers, bar girls, and others who characterize the modern Western experience
Publisher: Harry N Abrams Incorporated
ISBN: 9780810911055
Category : Portrait photography.
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A master of American fashion and art photography turns his artistry to capturing--in a series of photograph portraits--the cowboys, roustabouts, drifters, gamblers, bar girls, and others who characterize the modern Western experience
Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe
Author: Sandra Sider
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816074860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Examines architecture and design, dance, fashion, literature, music, philosophy, religion, theater and visual arts in Europe between 1300 and 1600.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816074860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Examines architecture and design, dance, fashion, literature, music, philosophy, religion, theater and visual arts in Europe between 1300 and 1600.