Archive for March, 2013
TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHTS TO BE THE SUBJECT OF NEXT TWO WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXHIBITS
• March 30, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, airplanes, architecture, displays, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, Fascism, FDR, Italy, museums, New Deal era, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1933, airships, Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi (1901-1945), Aviators, Balbo Drive (Chicago), Black Shirts, Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934), Chicago world’s fair, Chief Flying Eagle, Crociera aerea del Decennale, Distinguished Flying Cross, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Eagles, Fascists, Germany, Hindenburg (LZ129), Italian Pavilion, Italo Balbo (1896-1940), maiden flights, Parades, passenger accommodations, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio-telegraphed telegrams, Reykjavík (Iceland), Savoia-Machetti S.55 seaplanes, Sir Francis Claude Shelmerdine (Director General of Civil Aviation), Tidewater Oil Company, transatlantic flights, vintage postcards, Zeppelin Airship Works (Friedrichshafen
A DOUBLE DOSE OF EVIL: GUEST LECTURERS KEN JOHNSON, STEVE HELLER, AND POISONOUS PROPAGANDA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
• March 26, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, American war propaganda, anti-Semitism, anti-tobacco campaign, antisemitism, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, Communism, Communists, donations, exhibitions, FIU, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Green Library, Holocaust, Iron fists, Jews, library donors, museums, Nazi propaganda, Oren Stier, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, racism, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, stickers, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Anti-Jewish propaganda, Antisemitism, “Branding the Nazis” (lecture), “Fips” pseudonym for cartoonist Philipp Rupprecht ((1900-1975), “Quiet Violence: The Deep Structure of Violence in the Graphic Arts” (lecture), “Race and Visual Culture Under National Socialism” (Exhibit at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum (FIU), Children's propaganda books, Demonization, Der Stürmer (Periodical), Design educators, designers, dictators, Don’t Trust a Fox on a Green Heath or a Jew By His Oath (Nazi children’s book), Eric Feiler, evil, Final Solution, FIU Associate Professor Oren Stier, FIU Jewish Studies Program, Frank Luca, Frost Museum Teaching Gallery, graphic designers, Guest lecturers, Heinrich Hoffmann (1885-1957), Holocaust, Identity and differentiation, Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State / by Steve Heller (2008), Julius Streicher (1885-1946), Juvenile literature, Louise Fili, Ludwig Sütterlin (1865-1917), Material and Visual Culture of the Holocaust, National Socialism, Nazi visual culture, Nazis, Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, podcasts, Professor Kenneth Johnson, Race hatred, Race-baiting, Steve Heller, Swastikas, The Daily Heller (blog post), The Poison Mushroom (Nazi children’s book), The Swastika: Symbol Beyond Redemption? / by Steve Heller (2008), War Criminals
HISTORY REPEATS: COMMUNIST AND ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• March 20, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Communists, donations, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Soviet Union, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Activists, Anti-communism, Belgium, Bolshevism, cartoons, Centre International de Lutte Active Contre le Communisme (CILACC), civil rights activists, Collectivisation, Communism, Democratic Republic of Korea, Famine, Florida International University graduates, gulags, Hammer and sickle, human rights activists, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Library Assistant Michel Potop, Michel Potop, Militarization, Moscow Show Trials, North Korea, promised gifts, Propaganda campaigns, rare periodicals, Red Army, Russia, Satire, South Korea, Soviet Union, totalitarian regimes, Ukraine famine, viral videos
SCHOLARS MEET WITH WOLFSONIAN SUPPORTER TO DISCUSS ACADEMIC AND EXHIBITION PROJECTS TAPPING THE JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF COLLECTION
• March 6, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in automobile design, automotive design drawings, bindings, Boers, book art, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, curator, David Almeida, Digital Library Specialist, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Ethiopia, exhibitions, Far East, fashion, fashion for women, FIU, Florida International University, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, History Department, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Manchuria, Medicine, Modesto Maidique campus, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), museums, Orientalism, Photograph albums, photography, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Russo-Japanese War, South African War, Spanish-American War, Styled for the Road (Exhibition), The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Theodore Pietsch, Theodore W. Pietsch, Utility scheme garments, VIP vistors, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1938-1951 (exhibition); Beauty as Duty: Textiles and the Home Front in WWII Britain (exhibition), Abyssinia, Academic Programs Manager Peter Clericuzio, Assistant Professor of Chinese Art History Lidu Yi, Assistant Professor of History Elizabeth Heath, Boer War (1899-1902), Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston), British Empire, Curator Jon Mogul, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Ethiopia, Flagler Museum (Palm Beach), Frederic A. Sharf, Frost Museum (Florida International University), Frost Museum Teaching Gallery, Keep Calm and Carry On: World War II and the British Home Front, Library Assistant Michel Potop, Libya, Metropole/Colony: Africa and Italy (exhibit), Museum of Fine Art (Boston), Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach), Philip K. Hu, Professor David Rifkind, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), St. Louis Art Museum, T. W. Pietsch
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY GRAPHIC DESIGN PROFESSOR AND STUDENTS COME TO THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU TO SEE VIENNESE SECESSION AND OTHER MATERIALS
• March 1, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in Artists, book art, collectors, decorative arts, displays, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, erotic art, exhibitions, FIU, Florida International University, graphic arts, graphic designers, museums, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vienna, Vienna Secession, Vintage postcards, Virtual library displays, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Aesthetic movements, Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts movement, Austrian Imperial Printing House, Carl Otto Czeschka (8178-1960), Evelyn Rumsey Cary (1855-1924), FAU Professor Lina Weiss, Florida Atlantic University, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Jugenstil, Kelmscott Press (England), Koloman Moser (1868-1918), Leonard A. Lauder, Mother Nature images, museum visitors, Nieuwe Kunst, Paintings, Postcard collectors, Rudolf von Larish (1856-1934), Stile Floreale, Suffragists, Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring) magazine, Vienna Secession, Woman's Suffrage Movement
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