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Many Masks
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Paperback: 548 pages Publisher: Da Capo Press; 1st Paperback Edition edition (August 22, 1998) Language: English ISBN-10: 0306808722
ISBN-13: 978-0306808722 Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1.4 inches Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Customer
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"Genius, egotist, mythomaniac, sexual rebel, master of media manipulation, the legendary Wright comes alive in all his cantankerous
complexity. . . . A delight from cover to cover."--Kirkus 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 Enriched by hitherto unpublished letters and 300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. "A
synergistic event of first importance in terms of delight and humor and wonder: a graceful and shrewd writer, intoxicated all his life by the
most intrusive and permanent of the arts, has unfrozen with words the music of the architecture, both sweet and sour, of the American
genius Frank Lloyd Wright."--Kurt Vonnegut