Nora Wendl: Almost Nothing, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Almost Nothing
- Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth
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- Verlag:
- University of Illinois Press, 05/2025
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780252088766
- Artikelnummer:
- 12063946
- Umfang:
- 152 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 454 g
- Maße:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Stärke:
- 13 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 20.5.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
The iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth's role as Mies's collaborator and antagonist while falsely portraying her as the architect's angry ex-lover.
Nora Wendl's audacious work of creative nonfiction explodes the sex-and-real-estate myth surrounding the Edith Farnsworth House and its two central figures. An eminent physician and woman of letters, Farnsworth left a rich trove of correspondence, memoirs, and photographs that Wendl uses to reconstruct her voice. Farnsworth's memories and experiences alternate with Wendl's thoughts on topics like misogyny and professional ambition to fashion a lyrical examination of love, loneliness, beauty, and the search for the divine.
Eloquent and confessional, Almost Nothing restores Edith Farnsworth to her place in architectural history and the masterpiece that bears her name.
