Richard Filipowski : art & design beyond the Bauhaus / foreword by Hattula Moholy-Nagy; edited by Marisa Bartolucci.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Class of 1953 Fund.

Moholy-Nagy, Hattula, writer of foreword.

Bartolucci, Marisa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States.

Filipowski, Richard, 1923-2008.

Filipowski, Richard.

Artists--United States--Biography.

Artists.

Sculptors--United States--Biography.

Sculptors.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Art and design beyond the Bauhaus

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Monacelli Press, [2018]

Summary:

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 recently, 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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

9781580935098

1580935095

OCLC:

989631673