Frank Lloyd Wright: A Bio-Bibliography

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Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the 20th century's best-known architects. Over 40 years after his death, historical and critical comment and debate are increasing and controversy continues to surround him. This volume is a chronologically arranged, annotated bibliography of English- and foreign-language sources including over 3,500 primary entries, with thousands more connected references, presented alphabetically by decades and genres. The book documents not only the literature on Wright from 1886 to the present, but also his own extensive writings. It covers source books, monographs, anthologies, exhibition catalogues, book and exhibition reviews, periodical articles, and obituaries. All references are indexed by personal names, buildings, and projects. There is also a photo-essay comprised entirely of images published here for the first time, and a comprehensive chronology of the architect's life and career, which spanned 70 years and produced about 450 buildings and almost 550 unrealized architectural projects. The book will be of great value to scholars, students, and practitioners.

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Langmead's comprehensive biobibliography, a welcome and well-organized addition to the flourishing literature about Wright....This comprehensive work, whose entries, if enumerated separately, would total about 6,000, has a marked emphasis on foreign-language resources that are omitted from previous Wright bibliographies....Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and higher.-Choice
"Langmead's comprehensive biobibliography, a welcome and well-organized addition to the flourishing literature about Wright....This comprehensive work, whose entries, if enumerated separately, would total about 6,000, has a marked emphasis on foreign-language resources that are omitted from previous Wright bibliographies....Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and higher."-Choice

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DONALD LANGMEAD is Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture and Design at the University of South Australia.