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“V” IS FOR VICTORY!

• December 28, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in donations, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: collectors, ephemera, Home front, Second World War, Vicki Gold Levi, Victory Gold Levi Collection

VÁCLAV HAVEL (OCT. 5, 1936-DEC. 18, 2011): A TRIBUTE

• December 21, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions
Tags: Anti-communism, Charter 77, Communism, Czech dissidents, Czech folk costume, Czech presidents, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Dreams and Disillusion, Eric Dluhosch, essayists, Guest curators, human rights, human rights activists, Karel Teige (1900-1951), Karel Teige and the Czech Avant-Garde, Karel Teige l'enfant terrible of the Czech modernist avant-garde, MIT professors, Munich agreement (1938), playwrights, poets, Prague Spring, statesmen, Tributes, Vaclav Havel (1936-2011), Vaclav Havel Library, Velvet Revolution

FUTURISTS OF THE WORLD, UNITE AND TAKE OVER!

• December 8, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in Antonio Sant’Elia, Artists, avant-garde aesthetics, Fascism, Futurism, graphic arts, graphic designers, Italian design, persuasive arts, political art, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Antonio Sant'Elia (1888-1916), Bruno Munari (1907-1998), F. T. (Filippo Tommaso) Marinetti (1876-1944), Fascism, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Futurism, Tato (1896-1974), Tullio D'Abisola (1899-1971)

A FEW DONATIONS MADE IN MEMORY OF GINGER LEFF (JUNE 23, 1922-OCT. 24, 2011)

• December 3, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in donations, gifts, library donors, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
Tags: Cathy Leff, CIA, E. Simms Campbell (1906-1971), Ginger (Rose Ethel) Leff (1922-2011), Ginger Leff, Glamour, Glamour Girls of 1943 (film), Lucille Ball, Manhattan Project, museum directors, OSS, U.S. government Office of War Information, WAACS, war work, women, Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, World War (1939-1945)