Archive for May, 2014
“MEET THE NEW BOSS, SAME AS THE OLD BOSS”: HARVEST OF SHAME REVISITED FROM A WOLFSONIAN PERSPECTIVE
• May 31, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, decorative arts, documentaries, donations, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Federal Writers' Project, Florida Writers' Project, FTP, FWP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Living Newspaper, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, photography, political art, rare books and special collections library, slums, The Cradle Will Rock, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: Axel Horn, Barbara Burrage, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Edward R. Murrows, Farm Security Administration (FSA), FSA photographers, Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), Great Depression, Harvest of Shame (documentary 1960), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Julian Levi, Labor unions, Longshoremen’s Strike (1936-1937), Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Max Weber, Michael Grabell, Millard Sheets, National Maritime Union, New Deal era, Photography, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), strikes, tenements, The Joads, Theodore G. Haupt, Triple-A Plowed Under, West Coast Longshoremen, William Gropper (1897-1977)
A CANAL IN CASES, OR, INSTALLING WONDERS NEVER CEASE AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• May 23, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in curator, curators, displays, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, Flagler Museum (Palm Beach), Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, museums, Panama Canal, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wonders Never Cease: The 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal (Exhibition)
Tags: art handlers, Carlos Alejandro, Exhibition installation, Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Panama Canal, Steve Forero-Paz, Wonders Never Cease: The 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal (Wolfsonian Library exhibit: May-August 2014)
NOSTALGIA FOR CUBA: THE VICKI GOLD LEVI COLLECTION AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• May 21, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, Cuba, curator, postcards, posters, Tobacco, Vicki Gold Levi
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), 1940s, 1950s, Cabarets, Casinos, Christian Larsen, cigars, Cuba, Cuban Nostalgia Fair, ephemera, gambling, Havana (Cuba), Nightclubs, Prohibition, pulp, pulp magazines, tourism, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, Vicki Gold Levi Collection
VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE AND THE WORLD’S FAIRS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY: A WOLFSONIAN PERSPECTIVE
• May 14, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in architects, architecture, children's books, Disney, exhibitions, international expositions, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., monumental architecture, New York World's Fair 1964, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: 1958 Brussels Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau), Architects, Atomium, Balloons, Belgium, bird’s eye views, cable cars, Century of Progress Exhibition (1933-1934: Chicago), Chicago (Illinois), children’s pop-up books, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Cold War, Crystal Palace, Democracity, Eiffel Tower, engineers, Epcot Center, Exhibition buildings, Expo '86, Exposition Universelle of 1889 (Paris), Expositions, Ferris Wheel, Francis Xavier Luca, Futurama, futuristic architecture, General Motors Corporation, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859-1896), gift shops, Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nation (1851: London), HemisFair ’68, HemisFair Park (San Antonio), Hyde Park (London), International exhibitions, John Coppola, La Tour Eiffel, Men in Black (film), New York (New York State), New York World's Fair (1939-1940), New York World’s Fair (1964-1965), Norman Bel Geddes, Observation towers, Parachute Jump, pavilions, revolving restaurants, Riverwalk (San Antonio), San Antonio (Texas), Seattle (Washington), Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), Sky Ride, Soviet Union, Space Needle, Sputnik, stereograph cards, student-curated exhibits, Sydenham Hill, tourists, Towers, Trylon and Perisphere, Unisphere, Visionary architecture, World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago), World’s Fairs
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