Genius and the Mobocracy

Frank Lloyd Wright's intimate account of his personal and aesthetic relationship with Louis Sullivan, founder of modernism in architecture, with drawings by both artists, and two essays by Sullivan himself"In a prosody which has many peculiarities- presumably modern and notable among them a strange inversion of sentence structure, this is a memorial to Louis H. Sullivan, prophet without honor, and the aesthetic-architectural credo he formulated- functionalism. Wright, who in his early years served as a draughtsman under Sullivan- the ""lieber-meister"" -- has made a selection of his drawings reproduced here, and outlines briefly the triumph and the tragedy of his career, the character of his genius and philosophy. He also includes some messianic-metaphysical thoughts of his own in an attack on the ""mobocracy"" which ""swarms and swamps what genuine democracy we have built into our commonplace""; on the mechanization which occurs in mobocracy and causes the rejection of the individual, the genius; etc. etc. Of highly specialized appeal, for devotees, professionals."