Wright’s mother purchased the land in 1911 her son constructed a house there intended as his latest contribution to distinctively American architecture, as well as a home for the architect and Mamah Cheney, the married woman for whom he had left his first wife and their children in 1909. Taliesin, named after a legendary Welsh bard, already had a complicated, tragic history. Sprawling portrait of Wright’s Depression-era Wisconsin arts colony shows the genius at work amid a dizzying succession of admirers.Ĭultural sociologist Friedland (Religious Studies/UC Santa Barbara) and Los Angeles–based architect Zellman fashion a crowded look at the bold, unorthodox workers’ collective created in 1932 by Wright and his Montenegrin third wife.
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