Frank Lloyd Wright in Iowa
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2008-01-01
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Naegele, Daniel
Associate Professor Emeritus
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Why "Wright in Iowa?" Are there ways that Wright's Iowa works are distinguished from his built works elsewhere? Iowa is a typical Midwest state, exceptional in neither general geography nor landscape. The state's urban areas are minor, and Iowa has never been known for its subscription to avant-garde architecture. Its most renowned artist, Grant Wood, painted Iowa's rolling hills and pie-faced people in cartoon-like images that simultaneously champion and question the coalescence of people and place. Indeed, the state's most convincing buildings are found on its farms with their unpretentious, vernacular, agricultural buildings.
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This article is from Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly 19 (2008): 4–9. Posted with permission.
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Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 2008