Many Masks: A Life Of Frank Lloyd Wright (FIRST BRITISH HARDBACK EDITION)
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, AwesomeBooks [51737811], Wallingford, United Kingdom.
Many Masks: Life of Frank Lloyd Wright This book is in good or better condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages will be missing from the book. The spine of the book is still in great condition and the front cover is generally unmarked. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Shipping is normally same day from our UK warehouse. We offer a money back guarantee if you are not satisfied.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Once Upon A Time Books [195705], Springdale, AR, U.S.A.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Ground Zero Books.
New York: Putnam, 1987. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 25 cm, 544, illus., sticker residue on rear DJ. Gill was a friend of Wright's and knew several other members of the family over three generations. Brendan Gill (October 4, 1914 - December 27, 1997) was an American journalist. He wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. Gill also contributed film criticism for Film Comment, wrote about design and architecture for Architectural Digest and wrote fifteen books, including a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine. In 1936, St. Clair McKelway, an editor at The New Yorker, hired Gill as a writer.[2] One of the publication's few writers to serve under its first four editors, he wrote more than 1,200 pieces for the magazine. These included Profiles, Talk of the Town features, and scores of reviews of Broadway and Off-Broadway theater productions. As The New Yorker's main architecture critic from 1987 to 1996, Gill was a successor to Lewis Mumford as the author of the long-running "Skyline" column before Paul Goldberger took his place. He was also a regular contributor to Architectural Digest in the 1980s and 1990s. A champion of architectural preservation and other visual arts, Gill joined Jacqueline Kennedy's coalition to preserve and restore New York's Grand Central Terminal. He also chaired the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and authored 15 books, including Here at The New Yorker and the iconoclastic Frank Lloyd Wright biography Many Masks. Here Brendan Gill, a personal friend of Wright and his family, gives us not only the fullest, fairest, and most entertaining account of Wright to date, but also strips away the many masks the architect tirelessly constructed to fascinate his admirers and mislead his detractors. Enriched by hitherto unpublished letters and 300 photographs and drawings, this definitive biography makes Wright, in all his creativity, crankiness, and zest, fairly leap from its pages. Derived from a Kirkus review: Genius, egotist, mythomaniac, sexual rebel, master of media manipulation, legendary Wright comes alive in all his cantankerous complexity in this respectful but nonetheless bracingly unintimidated biography of "America's greatest architect." Gill's evaluations of the architect's goals, achievements, and shortcomings are rendered all the more convincing by the fact that the author was a friend of Wright's during what Gill calls the "late, sunny period of his life." Born in the Midwest, a son of an ineffectual minister father and an ambitious and quite probably mentally unstable gorgon of a mother, Wright fled to Chicago at an early age. There, thanks to an easygoing attitude toward veracity, he was able to apprentice himself to the renowned Louis Sullivan. From this auspicious beginning, the young man was soon promoting himself as the country's most daringly original architect, a reputation he carefully nurtured throughout his long career. Marriage, six children, and a host of commissions followed, only to be cast away when Wright ran off with the wife of one of his Oak Park, Ill., neighbors. Scandal, whether it involved sexual brigandry or contractual hanky-panky, was to become a regular player in the Wrightian drama. Gill weaves together the strands of his well-researched narrative with breathtaking dexterity. He enlivens his writing with occasional pinpricks of his own: today's art museums, with their "blockbuster" shows and ubiquitous gift counters, are referred to as "Buffalo Bill circuses." Sensitive, yet revealingly iconoclastic, and a delight from cover to cover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, WonderBook.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) is often described as the greatest of American architects. His works—among them Taliesin North, Taliesin West, Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax buildings, the Guggenheim Museum—earned him a good measure of his fame, but his flamboyant personal life earned him the rest. Here Brendan Gill, a personal friend of Wright and his family, gives us not only the fullest, fairest, and most entertaining account of Wright to date, but also strips away the many masks the architect tirelessly constructed to fascinate his admirers and mislead his detractors. Enriched by hitherto unpublished letters and 300 photographs and drawings, this definitive biography makes Wright, in all his creativity, crankiness, and zest, fairly leap from its pages., Hardcover, Ausgabe: First Edition, Label: G P Putnam's Sons, G P Putnam's Sons, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1987-11-10, Freigegeben: 1987-11-10, Studio: G P Putnam's Sons, Verkaufsrang: 854408.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, greener_books_london.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) is often described as the greatest of American architects. His works—among them Taliesin North, Taliesin West, Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax buildings, the Guggenheim Museum—earned him a good measure of his fame, but his flamboyant personal life earned him the rest. Here Brendan Gill, a personal friend of Wright and his family, gives us not only the fullest, fairest, and most entertaining account of Wright to date, but also strips away the many masks the architect tirelessly constructed to fascinate his admirers and mislead his detractors. Enriched by hitherto unpublished letters and 300 photographs and drawings, this definitive biography makes Wright, in all his creativity, crankiness, and zest, fairly leap from its pages., Hardcover, Ausgabe: 1st Ed. Format: Import, Label: William Heinemann, William Heinemann, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1988, Studio: William Heinemann, Verkaufsrang: 15513388.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Coas Books, Inc. [50941], Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Ramblingsid's Books, WEST SUSSEX, Haywards Heath, [RE:4].
William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1988, hb no d/w, corners and head and foot and spine lightly bumped, some slight marking to covers due to use, pages very clean and bright, few other signs of wear, a nice clean copy [Box 6], Aug 30, 1988.

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architecture,artists architects and photographers,arts and literature,arts music and photography,biographies,history,history and criticism,individual architects and firms,reference, Frank Lloyd Wright is the towering figure in modern architecture and design, a genius of the first order who profoundly altered the look of twentieth century homes and cityscapes. That America's greatest architect should also have been one of the greatest characters of recent times only enhances that legend. Arrogant in his treatment of clients and their money, scandalous in his relations with three wives and assorted mistresses, a flamboyant poseur who constantly needed to reinvent himself, Frank Lloyd Wright had the outrageous good fortune to be the Great Man he always claimed he was. Brendan Gill's provocative, incisive, and delightfully readable MANY MASKS captures the Great Man in all his brilliance and contradictions. Gill, a NEW YORKER writer of fifty years standing, a bestselling author and biographer, a lifelong student of architecture and a friend of Wright and his family, is the perfect match for his fascinating subject. Gill traces the full span of Wright's long and tumultuous career, from his apprenticeship with Louis Sullivan through his breakthrough designs for such masterpieces as Fallingwater and the Johnson Wax buildings and finally to Wright's renaissance in his old age when he completed such enduring monuments as the Guggenheim Museum and Beth Sholom Synagogue. Written with exuberant wit and revealing intimacy, illustrated with 300 photographs and drawings, Gill's MANY MASKS is the finest, fullest, and most entertaining Wright biography we are ever likely.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books, IN, Mishawaka, [RE:4].
Hard cover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, AwesomeBooksUK, OXON, PO BOX 318, [RE:5].
Hardcover.