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Title: Fallingwater Rising : Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House by Franklin Toker ISBN: 1-4000-4026-4 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A compulsively readable classic for American Studies & Art
Comment: A model of art history, this deliciously gossipy, profoundly researched, pellucidly clear and eminently insightful overview of American social, cultural and modern art history from the vantage of one object must rank with Henry Adams' "Mont Saint Michel & Chartres" as a timeless classic. Virtually every page holds a miniature essay on, e.g., history of American retailing, architectural modernism, fashionable ant-semitism before WWII, the department store in diffusion of high culture, visual representation of American optimism in the Depression, designing a home for a dysfunctional family, Wright's inexhaustible eccentricities and a very fine brief biography (including his odd relations with Jews), urban history of Pittsburgh (Toker--an early Renaissance specialist--wrote an underappreciated urban/artistic popular study of the city where he has lived for many years), "nature" in American culture, Objectivist philosophy (remember that rite of passage of our youth?) and much more. I can think of few other works that immerse a reader so fully and enjoyably in a time, place and the interface of vast historical and cultural forces.
Every college course on America since the Civil War should assign this book. I recommend it to everyone who loves to read and especially who loves to see a well-prepared mind at play with a fascinating panorama and telling details.
I am not a relative, professional colleague or in any other way obligated to say the above, just a former history teacher who owes Professor Toker thanks for a great read.
Robert Goldman, Manhattan, NY
Rating: 5
Summary: Definitely the "Wright" stuff
Comment: Last August, my 17 year old son and I visited Fallingwater. In December, said son bought me "Fallingwater Rising". The book is a tremendous read. I now need to go back to Fallingwater (this time with my wife!) to get an entirely different view of the masterpiece.
This is a history of the merchants of Pittsburgh, to a history of architecture, architectural publishing, with Ayn Rand, Henry Luce, the Carnegies, the Mellons, Frida Kahlo and of course the Kaufmann family and Mr. Wright included. Do yourself a favor and pick this book up. If you have never visited Fallingwater, you will yearn to; if you have visited, you will be anxious to return. Thank you, Mr. Toker.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Instructive Book That Establishes the Gold Standard
Comment: This book is an extraordinary education in the many facets of early twentieth-century American life and international architecture that bear on a house in the forest that has become a lasting treasure for devotees of Frank Lloyd Wright, a testament to his genius, and a gift to the traditions from which it borrowed and synthesized. Its author-Franklin Toker-has evidently read, observed, and digested everything that could have possibly influenced the building of this world-famous house. Whether carefully detailing the twists and turns of modernist architecture, reviewing the "social vaulting" strategy of E.J. Kaufmann and his family among the regional elite in the Pittsburgh area or musing over the influence and legacy of Wright's anti-Semitism, whether explaining the structural features of the building itself, pointing to the progenitors of its design in Wright's earlier work and that of his some of his contemporaries or demonstrating how Wright beat the Internationalists at their own game, Toker is ever the entertaining instructor assiduously and judiciously separating out fact and fiction, complex verities and simplistic myths in order to tell a story that generously enlarges everyone in this venture. By the end of the book, the reader has been profoundly changed by Toker's odyssey, enriching both her or his outlook on this architectural masterpiece and appreciation for the genius who designed it. No less rewarding, the reader has been taken on a voyage through the life and times of a powerful and beguiling client who proved himself equal to the tasks of commissioning such a unique blend of modernist and vernacular elements and challenging its architect to meet the demands of producing a work that has drawn such popular and scholarly acclaim.
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Title: Frank Lloyd Wright's House on Kentuck Knob by Donald Hoffmann ISBN: 0822941198 Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Auldbrass : Frank Lloyd Wright's Southern Plantation by David G. De Long ISBN: 0847825361 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 03 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House by Edgar Kaufmann, Thomas A. Heinz, Christopher Little ISBN: 0896596621 Publisher: Abbeville Press, Inc. Pub. Date: November, 1986 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent ISBN: 0670031690 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Wright-Sized Houses by Diane Maddex ISBN: 0810946262 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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