Archive for March, 2014
THE POWER OF DESIGN: CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMPLAINTS AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU
• March 27, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Eric Gill, FDR, Federal One, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Great Depression, Harald Engman, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: A. Birnbaum, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Adolf Hitler caricatures, American eagle, and William Gropper (1897-1977), Anti-Capitalist propaganda, anti-taxation propaganda, Arthur Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) caricatures, British Arts & Crafts Movement, Bummer (Wolfsonian exhibition), Cannibals, Cannon-fodder, Cathy Leff, Complaint booths, Complaint choir, Complaints! An Inalienable Right (poster exhibition), dehumanization, Denis Tegetmeier (1896-1987), Der Kunstliche Mensch, Design historians, Editorial cartoons, Eric Gill (1882-1940), Federal Arts Projects, Federal One, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Georg Grosz (1893-1959), Great Depression, Guest curators, guest speakers, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Icebergs, Jesus Christ, Knight Foundation, Miami Heral Media Company, Nazis, New Deal America, Paradox of Plenty, Political cartoons, Political machines, Power of Design (Complaints), Power of Design festival, prostitution, Prussian militarism, R. D. Fitzpatrick, Religious hypocrisy, Richard Miltner, robots, Social satire, Steven Heller, Stock Market Crash (October 1929), Todd Oldham, Uncle Sam, Unemployment, Willi Geisler (1848-1928), WLRN (Public radio), Work and Leisure, Work Projects Administration (WPA), Wounded war veterans
THE DAUNTLESS DANE: THE ANTI-NAZI ART OF HARALD RUDYARD ENGMAN
• March 18, 2014 • 5 CommentsPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Harald Engman, Nazism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler caricatures, anti-fascist movement, anti-Nazi movement, Censorship, Chiang Kai Shek (1887–1975), collaborators, Communists, concentration camps, Copenhagen (Denmark), Danish artists, Denmark, Der Forbudte Maler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), German occupied territories, German-occupied Denmark, Germany, Gestapo, Harald Rudyard Engman (1903-1968), Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Hermann Goring, heroes, Human Pyramid, Jews, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), lampoons, Menneske Pyramide (Human Pyramid) oil painting, Militarism, Nazis, Neutral countries, Neutrality, Pedophile, PODfest, Policemen, Power of Design (Complaints), Protectorates, Quislings, Resistance, Satire, Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), War in art
THE INTERNSHIP: OR, THE SOMETIMES-LIFE OF AMANDA SOL, RARE BOOK CATALOGING APPRENTICE AT THE WOLFSONIAN – FIU LIBRARY
• March 8, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in book art, cataloging, collectors, colonialism, donations, Far East, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, History Department, interns, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Orientalism, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, Russo-Japanese War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, volunteers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: A Japanese Nightingale / by Onoto Watanna [pseudonym of Winnifred Eaton], Amanda Sol, bonsai bush, Cherry blossoms, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, dragons, Geishas, Japanese koi fish, Japonica / Sir Edwin Arnold (1892), kimonos, Korea, Library of Congress Authorities, MARC cataloging, Nine Years in Nipon / Henry Faulds (1888), Present-Day Japan / A. M. Campbell Davidson, Rambles Trhough Japan Without a Guide / Leffingwell (1894), rickshaws, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), storks, The Dragon Painter / Mary McNeil (1906), The Garter Mission to Japan / Lord Redesdale
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