Had Frank Lloyd Wright's career ended in 1909, he still would be considered the preeminent early American modernist. But, despite the fact that a critical rupture occurred in his personal life in that year, Wright's career did not end. By 1909, with his Prairie period over, Wright left his wife and six children and travelled to Europe, initially with Mamah Cheney, the wife of one of his clients. While the scandal of Mrs. Cheney's murder in 1914 attracted the public eye, the impact of Wright's travels abroad and the dramatic directions his work subsequently took have been ignored. "Frank Lloyd Wright - The Lost Years, 1910-1922" lays out the facts about Wright's lost decade. With the first complete access to Wright's archives by any scholar in over forty years, Anthony Alofsin reconstructs the a history of Wright's travels in Europe. In recovering this elusive period in Wright's development, he restores a chapter to the history of modern architecture. Along with the discovery of a second trip to Berlin in 1911, Alofsin reveals that Wright learned far more from Europe than has been thought. He traces the history of Wright's two Wasmuth publications in Berlin in 1910-1911 as well as their critical reception. The story of their influence on modern architecture in Europe is widely accepted and often repeated. It is perhaps, as Alofsin demonstrates, wrong. Alofsin's investigations also introduce a new definition to the little known work Wright produced during this period, which he describes as Wright's primitivist phase. He traces this influence in his art through Wright's explorations of primitivist sources, innovations in sculpture, and intensification of the use of ornament. Less tangible, but as important, was Wright's view of himself, his art, and society, and Alofsin uncovers the European impact on the architect's image of himself as a crusader and an educator, bound to improve society through his art.
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坦白说,我原本以为这会是一本枯燥的学术考据,毕竟标题指向的是一段相对沉默的时期——远离了流水别墅的初啼,也尚未迎来好莱坞的绚烂。然而,我大错特错了。这本书的叙事节奏出奇地引人入胜,它处理“失落”这个概念的方式,堪称精妙。它并非真的“失落”,而是被历史的洪流暂时淹没了。作者的文笔如同上等的黑白摄影作品,色调沉郁却细节毕现。通过对1910年代初期美国社会剧变的敏锐观察,作者巧妙地将赖特的个人困境置于一个更宏大的文化背景下。你几乎可以感受到密尔沃基那些简陋的工作室里传来的木屑气味和未竟的挫败感。最让我震撼的是,书中对于赖特如何处理他与欧洲现代主义思潮的接触,以及他如何拒绝被当时主流的装饰艺术风格所裹挟的论述。这部分分析得极其深入,让我意识到,即便在资源匮乏之时,他的核心美学信念也从未动摇,这简直是艺术家的终极韧性体现。这本书是献给所有相信“艺术的价值往往在被世人遗忘时才得以彰显”的人们的一份珍贵礼物。
评分作为一名对二十世纪初美国现代主义运动抱有浓厚兴趣的爱好者,我寻找了很久,终于找到了这本能填补关键空白的著作。这本书的价值,并不在于展示了多少惊世骇俗的作品,而在于它详尽地记录了赖特是如何在“无声”的十年里进行自我重构的。它有力地反驳了那种认为天才总是持续高歌猛进的肤浅观点。相反,我们看到的是一个充满矛盾、时常自我怀疑的艺术家。书中对他与欧洲包豪斯学派早期思想的间接互动,以及他如何在没有稳定大型项目的情况下,依然坚持着他的“有机建筑”哲学,进行了细致的描摹。这种对思想发展轨迹的描绘,比单纯罗列建筑蓝图要深刻得多。我尤其欣赏作者在处理赖特与尤森·乔金(Taliesin的助手们)之间的复杂关系时所展现的平衡感——既没有过度指责,也没有一味辩护,而是客观地呈现了在危机时期,人与人之间产生的压力与依赖。读完后,我对他后来的成功,多了一份敬畏,因为我知道那份成功是踩在怎样坚硬的荆棘之路上得来的。
评分这本书给我最直观的感受是:阅读它就像是深入了一个时间胶囊。作者以极其严谨的史料考证功底,将我们带回了那个美国建筑界充满变数,而赖特本人正处于“身份危机”的时期。叙事语言的风格非常克制,近乎于冷峻的学术笔调,这反而增加了内容的可靠性和历史的厚重感。它没有过多渲染戏剧性,但正是那些被平静叙述的事实——比如他为了维持家庭开支而不得不接受的小型、不符合他理想的设计委托,或者他与前妻的持续法律纠葛如何拖垮他的精力——构成了巨大的情感张力。我特别关注的是,书中对赖特如何“重新发现”美国本土材料和建造方式的论述。似乎正是这段被边缘化的时期,迫使他更加深入地扎根于威斯康星的土地,而不是向纽约或欧洲的潮流妥协。这种“退守即是沉潜”的解读,为理解他后来的美国风格高峰期提供了坚实的理论基础。对于那些只了解流水别墅和古根海姆的读者来说,这本书绝对是一次必要的“降维打击”,让我们看到伟大的成果是如何建立在不那么光彩的基石之上的。
评分这本书的深度在于它挑战了我们对“成功”的线性理解。1910到1922年,通常被认为是赖特职业生涯的一个低谷,充满了失败的尝试和名誉的受损。然而,作者通过对那个时期设计理念演变的细致梳理,成功地证明了,这“失落的十年”恰恰是赖特思想最为活跃、最为‘纯粹’的孕育期。我喜欢作者使用的那种略带疏离、近乎人类学家的观察视角,他似乎站在时间的彼岸,冷静地解剖着这位建筑师的灵魂困境。尤其令人印象深刻的是,书中对于赖特如何在美国和墨西哥之间的建筑项目中,试图探索一种跨文化的、尚未定型的设计语言的尝试,进行了非常细致的分析。这种探索是晦涩的,且大多没有留下完整的实体建筑,但它们在草图和信件中留下的痕迹,被作者挖掘得淋漓尽致。这本书的结构非常紧凑,论据扎实,读起来有一种被高质量的智力挑战所折服的快感。它让你明白,真正的创新往往发生在聚光灯之外的阴影之中。
评分这本关于弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特“失落的岁月”(1910-1922)的著作,在我读完之后,留下了非常深刻的印象。它不仅仅是一本建筑史的补充材料,更像是一部深入剖析一位天才在职业生涯中段如何挣扎、蜕变的心灵史诗。作者似乎拥有近乎偏执的钻研精神,将那个时期分散在各个信件、私人笔记、乃至不为人知的财务记录中的蛛丝马迹都汇集起来,试图拼凑出一个完整的图景。我特别欣赏的是,作者没有试图将这段时期美化或过度浪漫化,而是坦诚地展示了赖特在“中西部天堂”陨落之后,如何在经济困顿、家庭关系紧张以及设计理念遭遇瓶颈的夹缝中求生。阅读的过程,仿佛是跟随一位侦探在废墟中寻找线索,每发现一封信件或一个草图,都像是揭开了一层面纱,让我们得以窥见这位巨匠在那些“黑暗”的日子里,是如何艰难地维持其创造力的火种不灭。这绝非那种轻松愉快的传记,它需要读者具备一定的耐心和对建筑史背景知识的储备,但回报是丰厚的,它揭示了那些定义了赖特后期辉煌的深刻思想是如何在逆境中萌芽的。
评分Alofsin well demonstrates how the trip to Europe in 1910 had a great impact on FLW. This book is based on substantial documents and Alofsin's argument is based on cogent reasoning and insightful observation.
评分Alofsin well demonstrates how the trip to Europe in 1910 had a great impact on FLW. This book is based on substantial documents and Alofsin's argument is based on cogent reasoning and insightful observation.
评分Alofsin well demonstrates how the trip to Europe in 1910 had a great impact on FLW. This book is based on substantial documents and Alofsin's argument is based on cogent reasoning and insightful observation.
评分Alofsin well demonstrates how the trip to Europe in 1910 had a great impact on FLW. This book is based on substantial documents and Alofsin's argument is based on cogent reasoning and insightful observation.
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