Frank Lloyd Wright: The Guggenheim Correspondence

by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

Book Overview

A narrative in correspondence from the "Guggenheim Letters," a remarkable archive that, in its entirety, would make a stack equal in height to the model of the Guggenheim Frank Lloyd Wright made in 1946. Here is a very personal and detailed account of the creative struggle required to build the extraordinary Guggenheim Museum.

It is a seventeen-year saga which saw the firing of the first curator, the death of the donor, and the creation of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809313170
• ISBN13: 9780809313174
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 9.0"