Robert Filliou (Born January 17, 1926, in Sauve, France - Died December 2, 1987, in Les Eyzies, France) was a French Fluxus artist, who produced works as a filmmaker, "action poet," sculptor, and... Read full biography
Robert Filliou (Born January 17, 1926, in Sauve, France - Died December 2, 1987, in Les Eyzies, France) was a French Fluxus artist, who produced works as a filmmaker, "action poet," sculptor, and happenings maestro. In 1943, Filliou joined became a member of the French Communist Party during the... Read full biography
Robert Filliou (Born January 17, 1926, in Sauve, France - Died December 2, 1987, in Les Eyzies, France) was a French Fluxus artist, who produced works as a filmmaker, "action poet," sculptor, and happenings maestro. In 1943, Filliou joined became a member of the French Communist Party during the war. In 1947, Filliou traveled to the United States and work as a laborer for Coca-Cola in Los Angeles and achieved a masters in economics. In 1951, he took dual French-American nationality. He worked... Read full biography
Robert Filliou (Born January 17, 1926, in Sauve, France - Died December 2, 1987, in Les Eyzies, France) was a French Fluxus artist, who produced works as a filmmaker, "action poet," sculptor, and happenings maestro. In 1943, Filliou joined became a member of the French Communist Party during the war. In 1947, Filliou traveled to the United States and work as a laborer for Coca-Cola in Los Angeles and achieved a masters in economics. In 1951, he took dual French-American nationality. He worked as a United Nations adviser and was sent to Korea for three years. He has lived in Egypt, Spain, Denmark, Canada, and France. He met his wife, Marianne Staffels, in Denmark. In 1960, Filliou designed his first visual work, Le Collage de l'immortelle... Read full biography
Robert Filliou (Born January 17, 1926, in Sauve, France - Died December 2, 1987, in Les Eyzies, France) was a French Fluxus artist, who produced works as a filmmaker, "action poet," sculptor, and happenings maestro. In 1943, Filliou joined became a member of the French Communist Party during the war. In 1947, Filliou traveled to the United States and work as a laborer for Coca-Cola in Los Angeles and achieved a masters in economics. In 1951, he took dual French-American nationality. He worked as a United Nations adviser and was sent to Korea for three years. He has lived in Egypt, Spain, Denmark, Canada, and France. He met his wife, Marianne Staffels, in Denmark. In 1960, Filliou designed his first visual work, Le Collage de l'immortelle mort du monde (Collage of the Immortal Death of the World), a transcription of a random theater play comparable... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (10)
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Flowers on the Rock: Global and Local Buddhisms in Canada
2014
Harding, John S., Victor Sogen Hori and Alexander Souci
445 pages
Eternal Network: Video from the Western Front Archives, 1973-2001
2003
Gingras, Nicole et al
95 pages (color)
Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature (Two Volumes)
1997
Lerner, Loren R.
1,820 pages (color)
Robert Filliou: From Politics to Poetical Economy
1996
Sava, Sharla; Hank Bull, Scott Watson
93 pages (color)
Robert Filliou: From Political to Poetical Economy (Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery)
1995
Filliou, Robert
96 pages
Hand of the Spirit: Documents of the Seventies from the Morris/Trasov Archive
1994
Watson, Scott and Keith Wallace
48 pages (color)
Glenn Lewis: Utopiary, Metaphorest & Bewilderness: Works from 1967-1993 Burnaby Art Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Lewis, Glenn et al
80 pages (color)
Whispered Art History: Twenty Years at the Western Front