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Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship
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Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship
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Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship

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Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy—from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. But the estate also gave rise to one of the most fascinating and provocative experiments in American cultural history: the Taliesin Fellowship, an extraordinary architectural colony where Wright trained hundreds of devoted apprentices and where all of his late masterpieces—Fallingwater, Johnson Wax, the Guggenheim Museum—were born.

Drawing on hundreds of new and unpublished interviews and countless unseen documents from the Wright archives, The Fellowship is an unforgettable story of genius and ego, sex and violence, mysticism and utopianism. Epic in scope yet intimate in its detail, it is a stunning true account of how an idealistic community devolved into a kind of fiefdom where young apprentices were both inspired and manipulated, often at a staggering personal cost, by the architect and his imperious wife, Olgivanna Hinzenberg, along with her spiritual master, the legendary Greek-Armenian mystic Georgi Gurdjieff. A magisterial work of biography, it will forever change how we think about Frank Lloyd Wright and his world.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateMar 17, 2009
ISBN9780061875267
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Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship
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Roger Friedland

Roger Friedland is a cultural sociologist who studies love, sex, and God. Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and New York University, he is also the coauthor of The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship (with Harold Zellman). He lives with his wife in Santa Barbara, California.

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    Very much my cup of tea. Captivating writing, extraordinary story - and true events.
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    I am flabbergasted. I trained as an architect, and we sure didn't learn about THIS side of FLW. To think I seriously looked at Taliesin West school of architecture when I was investigating programs. The man was no doubt a genius, but OMG, he must have been seriously charismatic to be able to hold his slaves/apprentices in such thrall. And his wife! She was a piece of work herself. It's honestly no wonder that his youngest daughter had mental illness. A fascinating look behind the curtain at one of the greatest architects of the 20th century.