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Photograph Credits

Francesco Dal Co

The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconoclastic Masterpiece

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Francesco Dal Co

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21468

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From Art of Our Time: A Chronicle of the Museum of Modern Art (New York: MoMA, 2004): 106, 108

Photo Tod Eberle: 118

© 2017 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona: endpapers, frontispiece, 28, 31 (top), 32, 33, 40, 41, 44, 45, 50, 51, 56, 57, 59 (top), 64–65, 67, 68, 74, 76 (bottom), 77–79, 82, 93 (top), 94 (top), 103, 112, 113, 121–30, 135–47

Courtesy of Johnson Wax: 27

From Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret: Oeuvre complète, 1925–1934 (Paris: Éditions Albert Morané, n.d. [1935]): 73

Drawing by F. Magnani: 76 (top)

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice: 14

Photo Red + Black architect: 95 (bottom)

Photo from Robert Moses and the Modern City, ed. H. Ballon and K. Jackson (New York and London: Norton, 2007): 23 (right)

Photo William Short, Courtesy of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: 148–52

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York: 8, 10, 12, 13, 22, 48, 52, 62, 70 (left), 80, 81, 87–89, 94 (bottom), 95 (top), 110, 131, 153, 154 (top), 157 (bottom)

Photo courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. © Rudolf Bauer: 11 (bottom)

Drawing by T. Trombetti: 84 (right), 85, 86, 93 (bottom)

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BOOKThe Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconoclastic Masterpiece

Francesco Dal Co

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00265

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21454

Considered the crowning achievement of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is often called iconic. But it is in fact iconoclastic, standing in stark contrast to the surrounding metropolis and setting a new standard for the postwar art museum. Commissioned to design the building in 1943 by the museum’s founding curator, Baroness Hilla von Rebay, Wright established residence in the Plaza Hotel in order to oversee the project. Over the next 17 years, Wright continuously clashed with his clients over the cost and the design, a conflict that extended to the city of New York and its cultural establishment.

Against all odds, Wright held fast to his radical design concept of an inverted ziggurat and spiraling ramp, built with a continuous beam—a shape recalling the form of an hourglass. Construction was only completed in 1959, six months after Wright’s death. The building’s initial critical response ultimately gave way to near-universal admiration, as it came to be seen as an architectural masterpiece. This essential text, offering a behind-the-scenes story of the Guggenheim along with a careful reading of its architecture, is illustrated with more than 150 images, including plans, drawings, and rare photographs of the building under construction.

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Francesco Dal Co

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date July 2017 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300226058

EISBN 9780300264234

Illustrations 160

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