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TABLE DETAIL: QUOTATIONS FILE

The structure of this table was designed to record an index with subject headings for quotations by or about Frank Lloyd Wright that John Geiger deemed relevant to his studies.

Note: The column labels shown within the table structures are historical references only, and do not reflect the definitions used within the version of the database being served through the website.

TABLE NOTES

Table QUOTATIONS FILE contains 83 rows arranged in 2 columns.

Entries record subject headings for selected quotations through the use of a choice list. The records are undated.

Records from Table QUOTE LINE ITEMS are displayed in a subform; see DataEase Form Screen image, below.

Database Search

The content of this table is accessible through the version of the database available on the website.

ORIGINAL DATAEASE FORM SCREEN

QUOTATIONS FILE form

Document: DataEase table definition printout (PDF)

COLUMN LABELS

Column: [QUOTE FILE #] records a number as a row identifier through lookup on a row value of Column [QUOTE FILE] of Table QUOTE LINE ITEMS.

Column: [SUBJECT] records a freeform subject heading devised by Geiger. The choice list includes:

  • Besinger, Curtis; Mrs. Wight's version after Wright's death
  • COULISSE quote from Hildebrand
  • Cruciform
  • Dance; Steiner; Gurdjieff; Wright
  • EARTH AND SKY (Between earth and sky)
  • Fenollosa, Ernest; The Kingdom of Art/instinctive aesthetic sense
  • Firmness, commodity, utility
  • God: creation of the symbol
  • Graff, Otto: R2; Froebel; personal relationships
  • Gurdjieff
  • Gurdjieff: Orage, Who are the best people
  • Hillside theater
  • Hovey, Richard; Taliesin a Masque,...as God does, one with spirit
  • Kant, Emanuel; Genius defined
  • Keyserling, Count Herman; philosophy; Steiner; spiritual; artist
  • Levine, Neil: Taliesin "grouping" of parts
  • Levine, Neil: Wright and space in 1908. Also see 0009. Instinct
  • Music, Mrs. Wright as composer
  • MYSTERY
  • Nageshi: band at door height in Japanese arch. Horizontal band
  • Nute, K.; Beauty, physical and moral; Hegel
  • PANTHEON
  • Pinnell, Patrick; Wright's classical habit of mind
  • Relationships
  • Seligmann, Werner; Scully, Vincent: Influence
  • Smith, Page: theory of the dialectic;
  • Style
  • Wagner, Otto; relationship of the people to their art
  • Whitman, Walt: Here is the test of Wisdom, Song of the Open Road
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Beauty, architects
  • Wright, F. L., Terminals
  • Wright, F. L., Form and function are one
  • Wright, F. L., Horizontal planes, in buildings... space
  • Wright, F. L., Ideas
  • Wright, F. L., Plasterbuilt, Gablemore, Flat Top, Mrs.
  • Wright, F. L., system of construction
  • Wright, F. L., Truth in art and architecture; its role in beauty
  • Wright, F. L.: Mrs. Coonley; "countenance of principal"
  • Wright, F. L.; Center line processional, avoidance off
  • Wright, F. L.; Detail/love of
  • Wright, F. L.; Geometry
  • Wright, F. L.; Link, connecting link
  • Wright, F. L.; Necessities/Luxuries
  • Wright, F. L.; Alofsin, assimilate
  • Wright, F. L.; Beauty
  • Wright, F. L.; Beauty as in a flower
  • Wright, F. L.; Beauty in nature/pine tree as pine and willow
  • Wright, F. L.; Beaux-Arts
  • Wright, F. L.; buildings as shelter in the open
  • Wright, F. L.; Button at the back/front; genuinely unitaria
  • Wright, F. L.; Charles White's description Wright's design method
  • Wright, F. L.; Fire "burning deep in he masonry of the house"
  • Wright, F. L.; folded plane
  • Wright, F. L.; MERRY WIVES OF TALIESIN
  • Wright, F. L.; Organic, as in architecture, idea
  • Wright, F. L.; Personality assessment, See Gookin, etc.
  • Wright, F. L.; planes in architecture
  • Wright, F. L.; Roof lines
  • Wright, F. L.; Simple
  • Wright, F. L.; Spiritual Muscularity
  • Wright, F. L.; Symmetry and balance
  • Wright, F. L.; Taliesin Fellowship
  • Wright, F. L.; Taliesin, Wright learns what it means
  • Wright, F. L.; The kingdom of Art
  • Wright, F. L.; unit system
  • Wright, F. L.; Wainscot
  • Wright, F. L; Gookin, personality assessment of Wright
  • Wright, F. L; method in itself does not produce a beautiful
  • Wright, F.L.: Sooty fingers
  • Wright, Frank Lloyd: Unity Temple, Unity House
  • Wright, Frank Lloyd; Proportions
  • Wright, Frank Lloyd; As teacher in the Oak Park studio, Byrne
  • Wright, Frank LLoyd; Attic & basement seen as scenes of violence
  • Wright, Frank Lloyd; friends; relationships; Bishop
  • Wright, Frank Lloyd; McCarter on Mrs. Wright and Wright's late work
  • Wright, Frank Lloyd; Reverence of Mrs. Wright by followers
  • Wright, Frank Lloyd; simplicity
  • Wright, Frank LLoyd; Taste
  • Wright, John Lloyd; Nature; Holistic view of work
  • Wright, O!.; Taliesin West is only a sketch
  • Wright, Olgivanna; Music, Mrs. Wright as composer

RELATED QUERY PROCEDURES

The data in this table is referenced in 3 query procedures devised by Geiger: