Oral history interview with Richard E. Filipowski
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded as 6 cassette tapes. Reformatted in 2010 as 11 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hrs., 48 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Filipowski, Richard, 1923-2008
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Chicago School of Design
label: Names
content: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design
label: Names
content: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Designers -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Filmmakers -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- United States
label: Topic
content: Design -- Study and teaching
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Filipowski, Richard, 1923-2008
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Richard E. Filipowski (1923-2008) was a sculptor, designer, filmmaker, and educator in Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 143 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1989 Sept. 25-1990 Mar. 14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.filipo89
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Richard E. Filipowski conducted 1989 Sept. 25-1990 Mar. 14, by Robert Brown for the Archives of American Art. Filipowski discusses his early childhood in Poland; immigration and childhood in Ontario, Canada; attending the Chicago School of Design (formerly New Bauhaus) under Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; freelance work in Chicago; teaching at the School of Design, at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and at MIT; his sculpture; and associations with Walter Gropius, Joseph Hudnut, Robert Preusser, Lawrence Anderson, Gyorgy Kepes, and Pietro Belluschi.