Description: THE DRAWINGS OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT 1962 MoMA / Horizon Press First Edition in Dust Jacket 320 pages and 303 black and white illustrations [Frank Lloyd Wright] Arthur Drexler: THE DRAWINGS OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. New York: Published For The Museum of Modern Art by Horizon Press, 1962. First edition. Quarto. Black cloth titled in gold. Printed dust jacket. 320 pp. 303 black and white illustrations. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Glossy jacket with a closed tear to front panel, a chip to rear panel and sun-faded red spine type. Black cloth lightly dusted, so a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket. 9.25 x 11.75 hardcover book with 320 pages and 303 black and white illustrations of designs for the ideal city, houses, apartment and industrial buildings, factories, skyscrapers, churches, hotels, museums theatres, a helicopter, automobiles, etc. Includes 16 pages of text, notes and index. Published in conjunction with an exhibit at The Museum of Modern Art in New York from March 14 to May 6, 1962. A marvelous survey of Wright's brilliant work as an architect and as a draftsman. The drawings range from 1895-1959, with he final three plates rendered by Wright's associates soon after his death. [Sweeney 1489]. Freitag 10372; Karpel B1365: "Drexler's book includes extensive commentary by the Director of the Department of Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art." From the book: 'This definitive new collection, one of the most important and exciting books of Frank Lloyd Wright's work ever published, gives us the privilege of watching the master architect at work." “In our country the chief obstacle to any real solution of the moderate-cost house-problem is the fact that our people do not really know how to live, imagining their idiosyncrasies to be their "tastes," their prejudices to be their predilections and their ignorance to be virtue where any beauty of living is concerned.” -- Frank Lloyd Wright A marvelous survey of Wright's brilliant work as an architect and as a draftsman. The drawings range from 1887-1959. “I am certain that any approach to the new house . . . must be a pattern for more simple and, at the same time, more gracious living: new but suitable to living conditions as they might so well be in the country we live in today. This needed house of moderate cost must sometime face reality. Why not now? The houses built by the million . . . do no such thing. To me such houses are "escapist" houses, putting on some style or other, really having none. Style is important. A style is not. There is all the difference when we work with style and not for a style.” -- Frank Lloyd Wright Please visit my Ebay store for an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. I offer shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Please contact me for details. Payment due within 3 days of purchase.
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