Archive for April, 2013
WOLFSONIAN TALK, WORKSHOP, AND TEEN COMIC CRITIQUE WITH DENNIS CALERO
• April 26, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American left artists, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, book art, collectors, Communism, Communists, documentaries, donations, Fascism, FDR, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Japan, Japanese Empire, leftist artists, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, political art, Popular Front, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Allies, Axis, Back to Work: FDR and Labor's New Deal (Exhibit), Batman, Cartoonists, cartoons, Chiang Kai Shek (1887–1975), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Comic books, Comic Kraze, comics, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, Dennis Calero, Digital art, Film noir, FIU Professor Bernadine Heller-Greenman, Francis Xavier Luca, German Expressionism, Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), God's Man: A Novel In Woodcuts, graphic novels, Hans Alexander Mueller, Harry Bridges (1901-1990), Harry Ward (1873–1966), Hideki Tōjō (1884–1948), labor leaders, labor un, Longshoremen’s Strike (1936-1937), Marvel Comics, New World School of the Arts, O Brother Man: The Art and Life of Lynd Ward, Patriotism, Photoshop, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Prime Minister Winston Churchill, promised gifts, Pulbic talks, Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, Silent film, Socialists, Steven King's The Little Green God of Agony, strikes, Superman, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1920), The Communist Manifesto in pictures, unions, War bonds, Web comics, West Coast Longshoremen, wood engravers, wood engraving, X-Men Noir
From Verdun to Vichy: Maréchal Petain and his Social Revolution
• April 19, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in accessioning, acquisitions, cataloging, collectors, donations, Fascism, France, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Occupied France, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, totalitarian, veterans, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: abortion, Axis, Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), Colonies, Cult of the leader, Dakar, Famille, family values, France, Frankish axe, Free Zone, French mandate, French society, German occupation, La Patrie, Library Assistant Michel Potop, Maréchal de France, Maréchal nous voila, Michel Potop, National Revolution, nationalism, Nazi Germany, Occupied France, Patrie, Patriotism, Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), propaganda, Resistance, Second World War, Symbols, Syria, Third Republic (1870-1940), traditional values, Travail, Verdun, veterans, Vichy, Vichy militia
A VERY WOLFSONIAN WORLD’S FAIR
• April 16, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, American architects, architects, architecture, bindings, collectors, displays, donations, exhibitions, FIU, FIU School of Architecture, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, George B. Post (firm), gifts, library donors, memorabilia, Midways, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Norman Bel Geddes, postcards, posters, promotional materials, student curators, Student exhibit, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago: 1933-1934), accordion-style book bindings, Amparo Baquerizas, Anika Batista, Anthony Quintana, Art, Chris Ingalls, Clara Palacio-de Luca, Danilo A. Mantilla, Exhibition buildings, Expositions, FIU School of Architecture Professor Elysse Newman, Francis Xavier Luca, Futurama, George B. Post (architectural firm), Inez Barlatier, International exhibitions, Jessica Martin, Katie Acosta, Lea Nickless, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Miami Dade College, miniature books, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Sudy Centre, New World School of the Arts Gallery, New York World's Fair (1939-1940), New York World’s Fair (1939), Nicolae Harsanyi, Paintings, pavilions, Perisphere, President George Washington, Rebecca Flor, student-curated exhibits, Tony Sarg (1880-1942), Trylon, Veronika Lugo, World of Tomorrow, World's Columbian Exposition, World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago), World’s Fairs
LIGHTS, CAMERA, KOREA: IMAGES FROM THE JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF COLLECTION AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• April 9, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, colonialism, donations, Far East, gender, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Manchuria, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, Russia, Russo-Japanese War, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "Land of the Morning Calm", and Customs (1907), athletes, Basketball players, China, Christian missions in Korea, Cinemas, Constance J. D. Coulson's Korea (from the series: Peeps at Many Lands, Dennis Rodman, Edward H. Fitchew (British painter), Far East, Frederick Arthur McKenzie's From Tokyo to Tiflis: Uncensored letters from the War, George Heber Jones' Korea: the Land, J. Morris' Advance Japan: A Nation Thoroughly in Earnest (1895), Japanese Empire, Kim Jong-un, Kim Yu-na, Korea, Korean musicians in art, Manchuria, Maps, Methodist Episcopal missionaries, missile crises, North Korea, Olympic Figure skating champions, Orient, People, Pyongyang, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), South Korea, Sports figures, Travel narratives, W. R. Carles’s Life in Corea (1888), Yalu River
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY … JUAN PONCE DE LEON “DISCOVERS” LA FLORIDA
• April 2, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in Cuba, donations, library donors, memorabilia, postcards, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, stickers, swimwear, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "Discovery" of Florida, Anniversaries, ephemera, Florida, Fountain of Youth legend, Juan Ponce de León (1474-1521), Legends, Myths, Rejuvenation, Silvia Ripstein, Spanish conquistadors, St. Augustine (Florida)
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