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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959679603321

Autore

Drennan William R

Titolo

Death in a prairie house : Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin murders / / William R. Drennan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : Terrace Books, c2007

ISBN

9786612255830

9781282255838

1282255835

9780299222130

0299222136

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Classificazione

BIO000000BIO001000TRU002000

Disciplina

364.152/30977576

Soggetti

Architects - United States

Spring Green (Wis.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The House across the River -- 1. Prelude to Murder: The Architect and the Feminist -- 2. Scandal in Oak Park -- 3. "A Peculiar Establishment": Life at Taliesin, 1911-1914 -- 4. "A Summer Day That Changed the World": Murder at Taliesin -- 5. "I Guess You Solved the Question": The Motives, Trials, and Lonesome Death of Julian Carlton -- Epilogue: The Legacy of Fire -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Supplying both a gripping mystery story and a portrait of the artist in his prime, William Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright's architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs.