Archive for December, 2012
“BACK TO WORK” EXHIBIT OPENS IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• December 26, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in American left artists, Christopher DeNoon, curator, Digital Library Specialist, exhibitions, FDR, Federal One, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Great Depression, History Department, leftist artists, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, persuasive arts, photography, political art, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Bonus March, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: art handlers, Back to Work: FDR and Labor's New Deal (Exhibit), David Almeida, Describing Labor (exhibition), Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Great Depression, Iris Sanchez-Ruiz, James Taylor, labor leaders, labor movement, Miami-Dade County schoolteachers, New Deal, Rosita Maria Sosa, strikes, Teaching American History Master's Degree Program, World War II
CRY “HAVOC!” AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR: PROPAGANDA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• December 19, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, donations, exhibitions, gifts, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, library donors, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, Pamela K. Harer, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian rare books ephemera special collections periodicals Florida International University antiquarian propaganda persuasive arts design museum research provocative, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Aidan O'Connor, American eagles, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, animal allegories, Anti-German propaganda, appeasement, Belgium, Boche, bulldogs, Century of the Child: Growing by Design 1900-2000, Charles Lindbergh, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, curators, Dachshunds, Democratic donkey, doghouses, dogs in art, Donald Thompson Carlisle (1894-?), Dutch duck, Fifth Columnists, Flags, Francis Xavier Luca, Gallic rooster, German shepherds, German-occupied Belgium, German-occupied France, German-occupied Netherlands, Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946), Illustrated children's books, Illustrated Postal Card & Novelty Company (New York), jeeps, Jews, John Bull, Joseph Miscione, Juliet Kinchin, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Leiws Christopher Edward Baumer (1870-1963), loans, Marianne, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), Nicodemus helps Uncle Sam, Occupied territories, orphans, parodies, Patriotism, poodles, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, propaganda in educational media, rabid dogs, Randolph Caldecott, Rats, Refugee children, Russian bear, satires, spiked helmets, Tanks, The Mad Dog of Potsdam, The Ordeal of Oliver Airdale, Uncle Sam, Vater ist im Kriege, Viktor Nikolaevich Deni (1893-1946), war refugees, Wolfsonian museum loans, wolves, Woodrow Wilson, Yussuf the Ostrich
VISITORS TO THE WOLFSONIAN DURING ART BASEL
• December 14, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, airplanes, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, automobile design, bindings, book art, cars, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, Constructivism, cruise ships, Cuba, displays, donations, El Lissitzky, Ethiopia, exhibitions, Frederic A. Sharf, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Lissitzky, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, Photograph albums, photography, political art, portfolios, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, streamlined cars, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Theodore Pietsch, Theodore W. Pietsch, trains, war propaganda, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 20th Century Limited (train), Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Advertisements, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Around the world cruises, Art Basel, Art Deco, Art deco book bindings, Art Nouveau, Austrian Secession, automobiles, Axis, Batik, book bindings, Bruno Munari (1907-1998), caricatures, Children's propaganda books, Contempo, De Stille Kracht, Depero Futurista, Display cards, Dlia Golosa, Dutch East Indies, Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954), El Lissitzky (1890-1941), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), Flying Clipper, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Frederic A. Sharf, Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946), indigenous peoples, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jeffrey Flemings, John Vassos (1898-1985), L'Inflation Sentimentale, Leonard A. Lauder, manufacturers' catalogs, Martijn F. Lecoultre, Nazis, ocean liners, Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Orion (Steamship), Pamela K. Harer, Peggy Loar, photograph albums, playing cards, pochoir prints, portfolios, postcards, Promotional materials, Richard P. Schick, Samples, Seguy, Sheet music covers, Steve Heller, Textile designs, Theodore (Ted) W. Pietsch III, Thomas C. Ragan, Ultimo, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), Wiener Werkstatte
FAREWELL TO OUR WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY INTERN AND A GLIMPSE AT HER WORK ON WORLD’S FAIR INDIANS
• December 6, 2012 • 3 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, colonial propaganda, ethnohistory, exhibitions, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, History Department, international expositions, Midways, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: "primitive" peoples, American Indians, amusements, assimilation, Buffalo Bill's WIld West Show, California Midwinter International Exposition (1894 : San Francisco), Chicago 1893, Chief Simon Pokagon, Civilized, Eskimos, ethnocentrism, ethnographic exhibits, human zoos, Indians, Indians of North America, indigenous peoples, Iroquois, Jennifer Toyos, Louisiana Purchase International Exposition (1904 : St Louis), metadata, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco), pavilions, Red Man's Greeting, Robert Rydell, Savage, savages, scalping, teepees, World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago), World's Fairs
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