Archive for January, 2012
A WHIRLWIND OF VISITORS AND DISPLAYS OF EUROPEAN LIBRARY MATERIALS
• January 27, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in bindings, book art, Children's propaganda books, Civil Rights Movement, colonial propaganda, colonialism, cruise ships, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, international expositions, Modesto Maidique campus, Occupied France, oceanliners, Orientalism, passenger ships, pochoirs, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda arts, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Silvia Barisione, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Tori Arpad, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, World's fairs, WWII
Tags: Art installation students, Art Nouveau, Clara Palacio-de Luca, collaborators, Colonial expositions, Colonial tourism, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Dutch East Indies, Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, Fascism, Francis Luca, French language students, French occupation, Indonesia, Italian colonies, Italy, Java, pochoirs, Professor Carmela McIntire, Professor Tori Arpad-Cotta, Steve Heller, Vichy France
CIVIL RIGHTS DISPLAY FOR BROWNSVILLE STUDENT VISITORS
• January 21, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civil Rights Movement, Civilian Conservation Corps, FAP, Fascism, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Great Depression, Joe Louis, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Nazism, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, posters, programs, propaganda posters, racism, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, veterans, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WPA, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1919, African American history, African-Americans, Anti-lynching campaign, athletes, Brownsville Middle School, civil rights, civil rights activists, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Federal Arts Project, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Jesse Owens (1913-1980), Joe Louis, Ku Klux Klan, lynchings, N.A.A.C.P., race riots, racial stereotypes, recruiting posters, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, W.E.B. Du Bois, Woodrow Wilson
A FRENCH PASSION FOR POCHOIRS AND COLONIAL POSSESSIONS
• January 14, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, France, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Algeria, Babar the Elephant, colonialism, deluxe editions, Erotic art, erotica, Fashion and Passion: Deluxe Pochoir Editions, Florida International University faculty, French colonies, gender issues, Jasmine Revolution, Judith Surkis, Maghreb region, Morocco, North Africa, Pierre Falké (1884-1947), pochoir prints, pochoirs, revolutions, stencil works, Tunisia, visiting scholars
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