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Richard Filipowski - Art and Design Beyond the Bauhaus (Hardcover)
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Richard Filipowski - Art and Design Beyond the Bauhaus (Hardcover)
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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. As a student at the Institute of Design (formerly the
New Bauhaus) in Chicago, he quickly became a protege of founder
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, who featured several of Filipowski's works in
his seminal text Vision in Motion (1947); Filipowski was the only
student Moholy-Nagy called upon to join the faculty, where he
taught alongside Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. Recruited by
Gropius to develop a course in design fundamentals at Harvard,
which remains a cornerstone of design pedagogy to this day, he
would move to MIT where he taught for more than three decades,
until his retirement in 1988. With a foreword by Laszlo
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.
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