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Any admirer of the creative talent of Frank Lloyd Wright should not be without this excellent book, which records 50 of his domestic interiors. Diane Maddex, who has written several books on Wright, has assembled a photographic collection of his living and dining rooms as well as playrooms, libraries, and a few public spaces, including Wisconsin's Johnson Wax building and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Wright's signature style--a combination of arts and crafts and the "prairie school"--was achieved by designing human-scale spaces with beautifully crafted materials. Maddex includes the finest examples of this in the book. The rooms span Wright's entire career--from the Robie House in 1906 to the Guggenheim, which was completed in 1959 (after the architect's death)--and they demonstrate the evolution of his style. The photographs are sensational; they capture the light, scale, and color of each interior. Accompanying each photo is a brief description of the clients, their requirements, and what Wright created for them. This is a lovely book that serves as a beautiful historical record of one of the 20th century's greatest architects.
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Good use of the full size of the book for big photos.......2007-03-28
A very natural companion book to 50 Favorite Houses by FLW by the same author. I think I prefer this one. It's not often I see photos of the interior of the Marin County Civic Center though there's just one. Despite there being 22 different photographers or souces for photos, they're all credited for 1998, the year the book was printed. This could explain why almost every interior shot appears to have, as much as possible, the same camera angle, that is, to include the ceiling and floors. It gives a feeling of first walking into a room. For some reason I like this book a little better than the 50 Favorite Houses one. Not sure why, maybe it's the rich natural wood colors of his interiors while all the homes in the other book are not as dramatic in color and bright detail as these rooms are. Both are worth having if you can get them at less than full price, which, thankfully, is one of the great strengths of this site. The author does a nice job with her medium sized column of information that is on the facing page of each entry. I'm always a happy FLW big color photo book owner when the book has every single photo (except one of FLW) take up the entire page and maybe half of them also covering a third of the facing page. That's what I want in such books, big color photos of his work taking up as much of the page as possible. Worth it owning this lovely book. chrisbct@hotmail.com
50 Favorite Rooms Review.......2003-08-29
This book is great either if you are wanting infornmation on Frank Lloyd Wright, his personal life or the works of art he created. It gives examples of his personal choices and styles. Each page includes a full page color picture of one of the rooms he designed.
It also is a good book if you are just looking for examples of interior design or aritechture. It has unique pieces and will give you great ideas!
Excellently arranged; quality overview of great room spaces.......2002-02-02
The first thing that struck me about this book is how well put-together it is. In "50 Favorite Rooms by Frank Lloyd Wright," Diane Maddex (listed in the credits as "Project Director") has crafted a book that is clean, simple and elegant in its presentation of the architect's trademark design of personal living spaces.
If you've visited more than a few of Frank Lloyd Wright's creations, chances are they won't all be represented here. He completed hundreds of homes and buildings, which means that this book could have been entitled "250 Favorite Rooms ..." and it still would have been too thin. What you do find are superb photos which are amazingly successful in capturing the perspective and harmony of lines, space, furniture, ornamentation and even lighting. My favorite views are inside the homes, but the public spaces are interesting also. You don't have to be an architect to appreciate the mastery in Mr. Wright's designs.
The chapters are grouped by room type (e.g., living rooms, dining rooms), with each of the pictures taking up AT LEAST one full page, and supported by 20-30 lines of text describing key design aspects of the room. The photos are of the highest quality in terms of exposure, lighting and balance. In some cases, the vantage point allows for a look beyond the windows to the surrounding landscape or greenery. A nice touch, indeed. In short, if you're looking for the definitive image of a room, you'll find a bunch of them right here.
If Mr. Wright had designed a book, I think this is what he'd have come up with. I give this my highest recommendation.
Seeing the Sublime from Behind Closed Doors.......2001-07-19
Most of the 5,000 plus wonderful rooms designed by Frank Lloyd Wright are not open to the public. This book gives you a chance to go where you often cannot go in any other way to see 50 of the best.
Unlike most architects, Mr. Wright designed in such a way that "the rooms inside would dictate the architecture outside." Even inside, he designed all elements of the room, including floor and wall coverings, art glass in many cases, lighting fixtures, furniture, and where everything should be located. He also specified that those who used the rooms should be limited to bringing in only certain types of objects, and for certain locations. For example, ornamental china was allowed on one ledge of the dining room in Robie House.
I have had the chance to visit many Wright homes and buildings, yet this book greatly expanded my understanding of his work.
Mr. Wright was primarily a home architect, and "the living room was the heart of the home" for him. He would use built-in benches to encourage reading, fireplaces for conversation, windows with designs to inspire contemplation, tables for informal dining and card playing, and views of nature for living more organically.
Clearly, it would be hard to outdo a Wright living room, and most of the best examples of his work in this book are living rooms. I thought the best ones were in the home and studio in Oak Park, Dana-Thomas House, Robie House, May House, Little House, Fallingwater, Taliesin West, Wingspread, Cedar Rock, R.L. Wright House, and Rayward House.
I liked his dining rooms best in the home and studio in Oak Park, Dana-Thomas House, Robie House, May House, and Boynton House.
For nooks and crannies, I liked the Oak Park studio library, and the Storer House Terrace.
Of the public spaces, my favorites were the Unity Temple Sanctuary, Coonley Playhouse, the Guggenheim Museum atrium, and the Marin County Center skylit atrium under the barrel vault.
If you ever have a chance to see any of these, be sure you take advantage of it! Robie House is now being rebuilt in Hyde Park, Illinois, but is open for tours. Final restoration is expected to be done in 2007. The Oak Park home and studio are open every day. Taliesin West is open most days. Fallingwater has an extensive schedule of being open. Unity Temple, the Guggenheim, and Marin County Center are usually open.
After you examine these wonderful living spaces, think about how your life would be improved in such more natural surroundings. How can you make where you live closer to his ideal?
Look for the most natural way to be with others!
The Essence of Eternal Art and Architectural Mastery!.......2000-02-01
This book touches me in many ways. First, it brings memories of childhood, with the illusions of art full in my mind. I have always loved art and buildings and when in Sr. High School, I had the opportunity to visit one of Mr. Wright's creations, I was in awe at the sight of it. It was in Falling Water, PA. When you have the opportunity to walk into one of these homes, not houses; it is like you feel the presence of the man who designed it, not just a building. Looking at the pages in this book is as close to walking in one of the luxurious rooms as a person can get without actually physically being there. Frank Lloyd Wright truly is an Eternal Artist. His book is lively and full of feeling, as well as detailed artwork that comes from the love of designing itself. I could go on for a long time about his works, but I will leave a little to the imagination now. If you haven't already seen or looked at one of his creations, I suggest that you at least buy one of the many wonderful books about them. You will be delightfully pleased for years to come.
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Art: From Prehistoric Art Until Modernism (Flipguide)
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Beautiful and extraordinary nature photography.......1998-11-10
This is one of if not the most beautiful book of nature photographs I have ever seen.
Best nature photos I have ever seen.......1998-10-22
All photos are done in the field---No staged photos. The patience required to obtain these photographs is hard to believe. This book has the finest nature photos I have ever seen.
Breathtaking photography.......1998-05-21
Not only were the images beautiful, the descriptions and articles on the photographs were very informative. As a nature lover and artist this is a book that I would recomend having for reference
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In "Islan of Golden Geese," Scrooge finds a genuine golden egg amoung the goose eggs he's bought at the market. The search for more leads him to Featherbrain Island, where geeky landlady Fannie Featherbrain considers gold more trash than treasure. In "Say Uncle," while Scrooge and Donald go on a business trip, Fethry babysits Huey, Dewey and Louie... with the help of a guidebook called "How to Cope With Children"! Just in time for Easter, "The Great Egg Hunt" finds Scrooge trying to save rare vulture eggs from a desolate mountain. In "Magic's Missin' Magica," the evil sorceress doesn't seem to be in town, but Scrooge is paranoid about her anyway. In "The Bunny Song," Donald is working at Scrooge's costume factory... and accidentally makes ten thousand bunny suits too many.
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1985
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Under-rated and under-understood.......2005-10-04
An outstanding work that is clearly (read the other reviews, all bar Mr Pen-some's are naive responses) not understood or appreciated. I spent some time trying to track down a copy of this text and it was well worth it. People who have not read it should gush less when offering their critiques of 1984. To define the text would be to insult it but those who have read other Burgess works will recognise his fascination with and utilisation of multiple styles and approaches, the better to deal with the subjects in hand. Another masterpiece from Wilson - and no surprises there!
Now it's an AH novel.......2005-07-19
The thing that strikes me about this book is that it now reads as alternate history. Say Margaret Thatcher never goes into politics, and the Labour ascendency of the '70s is not cut short. Given the grimy, hopeless bitterness of many ostensibly socialist societies, the excesses depicted in this novel become more realistic. The resolution of these excesses (to the extent that they are resolved at all) is, alas, less convincing.
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the idea that the elected government would fall under the general mess could be found in almost any book. The idea that
the King (Charles Tertius) would emerge as the _de jure_ head of state to get things moving again was pure brilliance.
Interesting.......2005-02-08
A discussion of '1984' by George Orwell, followed by a mini-novel ('1985') putting forward an alternative oppression scenario for life in London.
The mini-novel puts protagonist Bev Jones in London in 1985. Crime is rife. The standard of education of the youth-of-today is dreadful. Everyone is required to be in a trades union. Like Winston Smith in '1984', Bev Jones rebels from the system, with consequences for himself...
The mini-novel has potential at its beginning, but it descends into too much chat and too little action to remain sufficiently interesting to the reader.
This is an interesting book which was written at the wrong time (1978). In 1979, the Conservative Party, with its Thatcher Government, took political control of the UK, and the power of the trades unions became considerably weaker thereafter, rendering the novel in this book less relevant. The discussion in the book is nonetheless interesting.
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it beats 1984 in my eyes.......2004-06-05
i never got to read the criqtues on 1984 that burgess put in this(well thats a lie i skimmed them but no in depth thought) but i did read "1985"and thought of it as more practical than 1984 i would enjoy it if burgess would have expanded on it much more than he did it seemend more policitcal and rational than 1984. though 1984 was a fantastic novel at that and i highly respect orwell's works. 1985 had more of a dark humor too with my favorite line from burgess's novels "you have to get off!" "why?" "because were going on strike"
Weak for Burgess.......2004-04-21
The novel itself is pretty weak, especially for Burgess. He seems scared by the gulf oil money that was flowing into England in the 1970s, perhaps even a bit resentful. However, preceding the novel is an extended essay on imaginary fiction that includes Burgess' take on Orwell. This essay is worth reading. It is as insightful as the novel is disappointing.
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George Orwell's Animal farm (Monarch notes and study guides)
Ralph A Ranald
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1984: A novel
George Orwell
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- Deviates corrected for their own good
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Deviates corrected for their own good.......2006-02-19
In a society that has eliminated many imbalances, surplus goods, and even class struggle, there are bound to be deviates; Winston Smith is one of those. He starts out, due to his inability to doublethink, with thoughtcrime. This is in a society that believes a thought is as real as the deed. Eventually he graduates through a series of misdemeanors to illicit sex and even plans to overthrow the very government that took him in as an orphan.
If he gets caught, he will be sent to the "Ministry of Love" where they have a record of 100% cures for this sort of insanity. They will even forgive his past indiscretions.
Be sure to watch the three different movies made from this book:
1984 (1954) Peter Cushing is Winston Smith
1984 (1956) Edmond O'Brien is Winston Smith
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) John Hurt is Winston smith
Truly brilliant and quietly frightening.......2006-01-15
I've read this book twice: as an adolescent as required reading in a literature class, and as an adult. It was creepy but unbelievable (to me) the first time. Now, I'm not so sure.
George Orwell's masterpiece holds two important themes: political parties controlling what people say, do, and even think; everyone watching, monitoring, or spying on everyone else. I think that we are still far away from the first aspect. It was attempted in the former Soviet Union, and is still being tried in Communist China and Cuba, but those experiments have failed in many ways. After more than seventy years of outlawing religion in the Soviet Union, it quickly resurfaced after the fall of Communist control; suppression does not equal erasure. What would have happened if it had continued another seventy years? Who knows? But thought control is MUCH harder than behavior control (which isn't easy either).
As to the second theme of everyone watching everyone else, we are slowly drifting in that direction. In didn't happen by 1984, as Orwell feared, and our drift in that direction is more for safety reasons than for reasons of political control, but the slow crawl is there. Before the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01, there was a big debate about the police in various cities using surveillance on the public to catch wanted criminals. Many people were outraged. My feelings were mixed, because of the potential for violation of civil liberties AND the potential to catch dangerous criminals. Where was the lesser harm? Now, following the terrorist attacks, we are pushed, by necessity, one step closer to Big Brotherism. If you don't think so, visit your local airport, if you can get in. Is this bad? I don't know. Is it necessary? Maybe. Risk of further crime and terrorism is weighed against safety. Again, where is the lesser harm? It's not an easy question, but we will have to answer it. The debate over the Patriot Act shows how hot a topic this remains.
Sociopolitical implications aside, George Orwell's "1984" is a well-written, imaginative, deep book about serious and thought-provoking issues. I can't call it "enjoyable", but it definitely is valuable and well-done and pertinent.
ironically assigned reading in many public schools.......2004-11-16
1984 is extremely influential on the way we as a society label each other and our government with names such as "Big Brother" Orwellian and such. These names like calling someone a Nazi allow us to appear to argue but actually allow us to dodge the real issues. This is fairly ironic considering the origin of such terms. Basically 1984 is set in London in the distopian future. Orwell wrote it in response to Stalin's corrupting the ideals of Socialism. He was a socialist and so was really bothered by that failure.
The plot to 1984 isn't so important as the setting. Basically the story follows Winston Smith. Smith harbors less than perfect views of his environment, for which he will one day be arrested regardless of his actions. Not loving the government (thought crime) is the only crime that is recognized. Hidden cameras and microphones are omnipresent in the city, included mandatory TVs which can't be turned off, only show a single government station and contain hidden cameras through which "thought police" may monitor what is in front of the TV at any time. Social interaction doesn't exist, since that would be considered weird and therefore criminal.
There are three classes of people in London: Inner Party members, Party members like Winston and the proletariate, who aren't watched so closely because they aren't considered human. In this world Winston goes from merely not liking the government to engaging in unusual behavior. He starts by buying decorative antiques at a proletariate shop and progresses to having a girl friend, who he can only meet with in remote country side settings on account of social interaction is not allowed by the government. It is obvious to him that he will one day be taken to the Ministry of Love, a windowless building which handles law enforcement, and never fails at getting thought criminals to love the government.
The novel is always dark. No happy beginning, no happy middle and no happy ending. Still it is important to read it before throwing around terms like "Orwellian" It has been so influential on society that it is required reading - if you want to pass your tenth grade English. Failing to read is a sign of insurgence against the government.
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1984 de George Orwell (Foliotheque)
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1984, krijgen Orwell en Huxley gelijk?
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MIS Tres Adioses a Cuba - Diario de DOS Viajes
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