Frank Lloyd Wright, art collector. Secessionist prints from the t

In Frank Lloyd Wright, Art Collector, Anthony Alofsin presents the first catalogue raisonné of the thirty-two prints and one original drawing that constitute Wright´s Secessionist collection. Alofsin explores Wright´s encounters with German and Austrian art before his travels to Europe; the fluid definition of modern art around 1909; and the complex context for Wright´s acquiring this collection while in Europe. This book, with its original research, puts into a new light a range of artists—some famous, others unknown--who sought to express, like Wright, their own rebellion against academic traditions. A unique contribution to the history of modern art, Frank Lloyd Wright, Art Collector offers stunningly original insights into the master´s artistic taste, as well as to a group of progressive artists whose work has been undeservedly overlooked in conventional histories of modernism.