Richard Filipowski : art & design : beyond the Bauhaus

Richard Filipowski Art & design : beyond the Bauhaus

Book - 2018

In this, the first monograph of Richard Filipowski, a major figure bridging the Bauhaus and American midcentury modernism finally gets his due. Richard Filipowski (1923-2008) was among the most gifted polymaths in the annals of American modernism. Whether as a painter, sculptor, or designer of furniture and jewelry, Filipowski developed a lush, abstract, and amazingly consistent visual language that marks him among the finest figures of midcentury art and design. With a foreword by László Moholy-Nagy's daughter Hattula, 'Richard Filipowski: Art and Design Beyond the Bauhaus' is the first monograph of this master, who over the course of his career created a unique body of work in diverse media that has largely, until recentl...y, been held in private collections due to his relative lack of compulsion to seek media attention or worldly rewards. But now through the efforts of the Filipowski family and new attention by design scholars--several of whom contribute essays here on Filipowski's graphic and painted works, sculpture, furniture, and position in design history--the work is being revealed to a new generation of aficionados. 'Richard Filipowski' is a rich document of a life and career that is poised to reenter the canon of modernism.

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Subjects
Filipowski, Richard, > 1923-2008.
Artists > United States > Biography.
Sculptors > United States > Biography.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Biographies.
Genres
Biographies
Published
New York, NY : Monacelli Press [2018]
Language
English
Other Authors
Hattula Moholy-Nagy (writer of foreword)
Physical Description
264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 31 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9781580935098
  • Foreword: Father and Filip / Hattula Moholy-Nagy
  • Introduction: Discovering Richard Filipowski / Juliet Burrows & Kim Hostler
  • Origins: Ostrov to Toronto, by way of Terra Cotta / Marisa Bartolucci
  • Filip, Moholy, and the legacy of the Chicago Bauhaus / Marisa Bartolucci & Lloyd C. Engelbrecht
  • The promise of a chess set / Larry List
  • Filip at the Harvard Bauhaus / Jill Pearlman
  • Rediscovering Richard Filipowski's painting and sculpture / Janet Koplos
  • MIT, Pietro Belluschi, and Temple B'rith Kodesh / Meredith L. Clausen
  • My teacher Filip: an appreciation / Richard Dattner, FAIA
  • Richard Filipowski: furniture designer / Larry Weinberg
  • Richard Filipowski: jewelry maker / Ursula Ilse-Neuman
  • In my end is my beginning: Filip's final years / Marisa Bartolucci.
Review by Library Journal Review

This loving tribute to the one of the finest artists of American modernism, -Richard Filipowski (1923-2008), presents a collection of ten essays by notable design scholars interspersed with remembrances by friends and former students. Born to Polish emigrants from Canada, he came to Chicago in 1942 to study at the Institute of Design and quickly became the protégé of its founder, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Over Filipowski's extensive career, which he referred to as his "hobby," he worked with Mology-Nagy, Walter -Gropius, and Marcel Breuer, and revolutionized the teaching of design fundamentals at both Harvard and MIT. Filipowski's works have long been held in notable private and public collections, including his Chapel Ark and Eternal Flame, created for Temple B'rish Kodesh in Rochester, NY. Beautifully illustrated with images of "Filip's" paintings, sculpture, furniture, jewelry, drawings, and other objects, this new work does much in the way of recognizing and highlighting the importance of the artist's achievements and helping a new generation learn of his contributions. VERDICT Highly recommended for both academic and public libraries.-Stephen Allan Patrick, Jonesborough, TN © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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