Monday, October 23, 2017

The Frank Lloyd Wright Unitarian Meeting House, 1949-1951, of 900 University Bay Dr., Shorewood Hills, Wis. and the University of Wisconsin Not Far To the East of It.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Unitarian Meeting House,  1949-1951, of  900 University Bay Dr., Shorewood Hills, Wis. and the University of Wisconsin Not Far To the East of It.

Mundane Madison, where the Leftists are now created out of the Millennials, still has, not for west of the Outfit on Lake Mendota where that creation is performed, a building out of the past which rises to the level of art. Rose Slivka wrote in 1961 that "As a fusion between the two dimensional and the three dimensional, American pottery is realizing itself as a distinct art form. It is like a barometer of our esthetic situation." Cecile Whiting in Common Ground: Ceramics In Southern California, 1945- 1975,, 2012, said that "The art critic Bernard Pyron tartly noted three years after Slivika's article that even the fine art world was aware of the ferment in ceramics." Whiting was writing about my 1964 article, The Tao and Dada of Recent American Ceramic Art, in Artforum,,,,,,,,,,But before 1961 and 1964 Frank Lloyd Wright had shown in some of his best buildings a greater rise of a type of three dimensional form - architecture - to the status of art.

I have a few 35mm color slides I took of The Wright Unitarian Meeting House in Madison during the fifties, but none have been made into prints or scanned to become digital images. Here is one photo of me in about 1958 near the west wing of the building.



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