{"id":5121,"date":"2011-02-10T16:02:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T20:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2011-02-10T16:26:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T20:26:53","slug":"frank-lloyd-wright-on-suicide-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2011\/02\/frank-lloyd-wright-on-suicide-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Lloyd Wright on Suicide Watch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Kevin Grace<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, not really.\u00a0 One of the great things about working with archives is finding a jewel now and then that casts a light on an event or situation, or illuminates more fully the character of someone famous.\u00a0 The letter you see here provides one of those glimmering moments.\u00a0 In the Archives &amp; Rare Books Library, we hold the records and documents of the Contemporary Arts Center, a great institution and a prime exhibitor of modern art in the United States.\u00a0 In fact, it was founded in 1939 as the Modern Art Society, and its exhibitions over the decades have featured groundbreaking and provocative art from Moholy-Nage and the Bauhaus movement to Jasper Johns and Jim Dine.\u00a0 The controversial showing of Robert Mapplethorpe\u2019s photographs in 1990 still draws worldwide research and attention.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, though, it is that one small item, that gem, that draws our attention.\u00a0 In 1956, Allon Schoener, the director of the CAC, invited legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright to partake in an exhibition of his work.\u00a0 Wright\u2019s response is below.\u00a0 To describe Wright as grouchy or temperamental is quite an understatement.\u00a0 Certainly, Wright was quite aware of his standing in the world of architecture and the value of his time!<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Contemporary Arts Center holdings, contact the Archives &amp; Rare Books Library at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/libraries\/arb\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/libraries\/arb\/index.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Frank-Lloyd-Wright_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5127\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Frank-Lloyd-Wright_small.jpg\" alt=\"Frank Lloyd Wright on Suicide Watch!\" width=\"561\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kevin Grace Well, not really.\u00a0 One of the great things about working with archives is finding a jewel now and then that casts a light on an event or situation, or illuminates more fully the character of someone famous.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2011\/02\/frank-lloyd-wright-on-suicide-watch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[53,35,58],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arb","category-uclibraries","tag-cincinnati-history","tag-just-interesting","tag-urban-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}