The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright & the Taliesin Fellowship
By Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman
4/5
()
About this ebook
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Drawing on hundreds of new and unpublished interviews and countless unseen documents from the Wright archives, The Fellowship is an unforgettable story of genius and ego, sex and violence, mysticism and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.
Roger Friedland
Roger Friedland is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book is To Rule Jerusalem: The Profane Politics of a Sacred Place, with Richard Hecht (1993). Deirdre Boden is Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University in England and the author of Talk and Social Structure (California, 1991).
Read more from Roger Friedland
Amore: An American Father's Roman Holiday Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5NowHere: Space, Time, and Modernity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Fellowship
Related ebooks
Tongues of Flame Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Liar (1888) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsModernist Mentor: A Biography of Gertrude Stein Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lee Krasner: A Biography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Better Than Sane: Tales from a Dangling Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow: The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Cezanne's Quarry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings27 Views of Durham Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLundie’s Stories: Tales from a Wyoming Original Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Floridoro: A Chivalric Romance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPicture and Text Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Heaven & Earth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHenry James Short Stories Volume 12 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Book of Live Wires Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStanford White: Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLetters of James Agee to Father Flye: 1st Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHelen Gee: Limelight, a Greenwich Village Photography Gallery and Coffeehouse in the Fifties Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Greta Garbo: A Divine Star Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDiana of the Crossways — Complete Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5De Bow's Review: The Antebellum Vision of a New South Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Berlin Woman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFinding Fish Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Princess Casamassima by Henry James (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for W. D. Snodgrass's "Heart's Needle" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Age of Infidelity and Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Artists and Musicians For You
IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Coreyography: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Long Hard Road Out of Hell Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of The War of Art: by Steven Pressfield | Includes Analysis Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Meaning of Mariah Carey Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Woman in Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gary Larson and The Far Side Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSlash Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Would Leave Me If I Could.: A Collection of Poetry Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Elvis and Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Autobiography of Gucci Mane Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bowie: An Illustrated Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/550 Great Love Letters You Have To Read (Golden Deer Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yes Please Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leonardo da Vinci Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Walked the Line: My Life with Johnny Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not My Father's Son: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5James Baldwin: A Biography Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Me: Elton John Official Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rememberings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Fellowship
20 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I am flabbergasted. I trained as an architect, and we sure didn't learn about THIS side of FLW. To think I seriously looked at Taliesin West school of architecture when I was investigating programs. The man was no doubt a genius, but OMG, he must have been seriously charismatic to be able to hold his slaves/apprentices in such thrall. And his wife! She was a piece of work herself. It's honestly no wonder that his youngest daughter had mental illness. A fascinating look behind the curtain at one of the greatest architects of the 20th century.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very much my cup of tea. Captivating writing, extraordinary story - and true events.