Archive for December, 2013
TODAY IN HISTORY: 120TH ANNIVERSARY OF MAO ZEDONG’S BIRTHDAY FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• December 26, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in Communism, Communists, donations, Far East, gifts, graphic arts, Iron fists, library donors, persuasive arts, propaganda, propaganda arts, Steve Heller, totalitarian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Anniversaries, Asia, “cult of the leader” propaganda, “Cultural Revolution”, “Little Red Book”, Birthdays, branding, Chairman Mao, China, Communism, dictatorships, Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State, Mao Tse-tung, Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Steve Heller
SPIRITS OF CHRISTMAS PAST, FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• December 21, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, children's books, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Great Depression, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., persuasive arts, political art, Popular Front, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler caricatures, Advertising art, Advertising cards, Advertsing art, American cultural imperialism, Anti-Capitalist propaganda, Axis, Benito Mussolini caricatures, Captain Tick Mouse, Children artists, Christmas, Coca-Cola Company, commercial art, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), Fortnun & Mason (firm), Franz Cizek, Great Depression, holidays, Interwoven stockings, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Kate Greenaway Collection, Kris Kringle, Kunstgewerbeschule (Vienna), Matchbook covers, naughty and nice children, New Pioneer (magazine), Santa Claus, Santa Claus laundry soap, soft drinks, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), St. Nicholas, St. Nick, stockings, The Coca-Cola Kid (film : 1985), Vicki Gold Levi Collection, war, war propaganda, William Gropper (1897-1977), World War (1914-1918)
The Manchurian Candidate: Views of the Russo-Japanese War from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection at The Wolfsonian – FIU Library
• December 17, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in colonialism, donations, Far East, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Manchuria, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, Russia, Russo-Japanese War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Battle of Port Arthur, Cavalry, China, Chinese Eastern Railway, Chinese-Japanese tensions, Cyber hacking, Cyberattacks, Dalian, David Almeida, Digital Resources Photographer, Hackers, Home front efforts, Japan, Japanese bliss deities, Military, Mothers, Panama Canal, Parsnips, Roses, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Sino-Japanese War, Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), Tamemoto Kuroki (1844-1923), The Voice of Russia, virtual library displays
ART BASEL AND OCEAN LINER AFICIONADO TOURS OF THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY AND A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE
• December 13, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in book art, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communism, Communists, Constructivism, cruise ships, displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, Dutch Art Nouveau, Ethiopia, Far East, Fascism, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Hamburg-American Line, international expositions, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, John Heartfield (1891-1968), Laurence Miller Collection, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, Nieuwe Kunst, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Photograph albums, photography, pochoirs, political art, postcards, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, VIP vistors, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World's fairs, WWI
Tags: Anti-Communist Propaganda, anti-Fascist propaganda, anti-Nazi propaganda, Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (periodical), Art Basel, Art Nouveau, Asama Maru (steamship), Battleship Potemkin (film : 1925), Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), calendars, Chatsworth House, Chemical warfare, Christopher Kyte, cruise line industry, Crystal Palace Exhibition (1851 : London), Cunard, Dan Lotten, designers, Duilio (steamship), Empire Welland (troopship), family photographs, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), First World War, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Gas masks, George G. Sharp, German design reform, Giulio Cesare (steamship), graphic art, Grim Reaper, Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hibiya Shrine (Japan), Hyde Park (London), Illumination, Italian Futurism, Japan, Jeff Maklin, Jim Lida, John Heartfield (1891-1968), La Prose du Transsibérien et de La Petite Jehanne de France, library visitors, Maritime artists, Museum buildings, Naval architects, Nieuwe Kunst, Normandie (Steamship), NYK Line, ocean liner aficionados, ocean liners, Odessa Steps, Owen Jones (1809-1874), Patria (3) (steamship), photograph albums, Photomontage, postage stamps, postcards, promised gifts, propaganda, Raoul Cenisi (1912-1991), robots, Rossia (steamship), Russian Constructivism, S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam (steamship), Saturnia, Saturnia (steamship), Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, shoes, Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), Skeletons, Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979), Stanley Haviland, Stephen Card, Theatre costume design, Theodoor Willem Nieuwenhuis (1866-1951), Thomas Cassidy, Tullio Crali (1910-2000), Victorian England, vultures, watercolors, Weddings, WWI
FROM WHIPLASH LINES THROUGH UTOPIA TO SKYSCRAPERS: BUILT AND UNBUILT LANDMARK ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• December 6, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in American architects, architects, architecture, Art Nouveau (architecture), British architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hector Guimard (1867-1942), museums, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Unrealized architecture, Unrealized architecture exhibit, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Adolf Loos, Adolf Meyer, Antoni Gaudí, Architect designed furniture, architectural competitions, architectural portfolios, Art Nouveau architecture, Bellahouston Park, Bruno Busch, Bruno Taut, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Chicago Tribune, David Almeida, Digital Resources Photographer, Eliel Saarinen, Emile Zola, English Arts and Crafts movement, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Frank Lloyd Wright, Glasgow, Hans Hahn, Haus eines Kunstfreundes, Hector Guimard, Heinrich Mossdorf, hydroelectric power, John Mead Howells, Le Castel Béranger, Leopold Bauer, Lexington Terraces, Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott, Margaret Macdonald, Marion Mahony Griffin, Native Americans in architecture, neo-Gothic architecture, Nicolae Harsanyi, Otto Wagner, Peter Behrens, Prairie School, Prima Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna, Raimondo Tommaso D’Aronco, Raymond Hood, Rowan Moore, The Observer, Tony Garnier, Tribune Tower, unbuilt architectural designs, Une cité industrielle, utopian cities, Victor Horta, Victor Metzger house, vocational schools, Walter Gropius, Wasmuth Portfolio, Winslow Vila
CARTOONS FOR THE CAUSE: COMMUNIST CARTOONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• December 4, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Aesop Said So, blue collar workers, British Arts & Crafts Movement, Capitalists, caricatures, cartoons, Class struggle, Clive Weed, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Comrade Gulliver, CPUSA, George Grosz (1893-1959), Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), illustrators, John Pierpoint Morgan (1837-1913), Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919), Karl Marx (1818-1883), Karl Marx’ ‘Capital’ in Pictures, Linocuts, lithographs, Lucienne Bloch (1909-1999), National Socialism, Nazis, Robert Miner, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Socialism, Socialists, Soviet Union, Spartakus uprising (1919), Stock Market Crash (October 1929), The Mirrors of Wall Street, Tim Benson, Top hats, totalitarianism, Walter Crane (1845-1915), white collar workers, William Gropper (1897-1977), WWI, WWII
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