Legendary Mizners

By Alva Johnston

Book Overview

The real-life adventures of Addison and Wilson Mizner, the subjects of a new Stephen Sondheim musical Gold! Alva Johnston's joint biography of Addison and Wilson Mizner is a delightful portrait of two... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Unknown Binding
• ISBN: B002A10DT0
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Unknown
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Past is Prologue

I think that before anyone moves to Florida, or does business in Florida, they ought to read this book. If you've spent any time there this book will be very funny. The Art Basel enthusiasm which has made Miami hot in recent years has a distant echo in Mizner's clients for whom he created charming amalgams of various Spanish styles. At least they got a big house out of it, whereas what those who purchased at Art Basel acquired is open to some question. This book clearly shows that a certain kind of classy hucksterism is endemic to the Florida experience of art, or architecture. But it does it by telling a very amusing and in the end, sad story. Appropriately enough Boca now has Mizner Park, which is naturally is not a park at all, but a shopping mall. The Boca Museum is in there too, and the many works-on-paper contained therein, as well as drinking-fountains with their own dedicatory plaques from benefactors, show that Mizner's spirit of genial elitism continues.