Archive for November, 2014
RAZZLE DAZZLE, ART BASEL: A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXHIBIT ON THE “GREAT WAR” AND THE DECORATION OF THE MUSEUM’S FAÇADE
• November 29, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in airplanes, American war propaganda, Armistice Day, children's books, Children's propaganda books, curators, displays, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, First World War (1914-1918), FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, Pamela K. Harer, passenger ships, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Veterans Day, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: airplanes, Art Basel, artists, biplanes, Camouflage, Dazzle Painting, facades, Intricate Pattern Overlay, Michelle Weinberg, Painting, Professor Francis Luca, R.M.S. Lusitania, ships, submarine warfare, the Great War, U-Boat attacks, U-Boats, unrestricted submarine warfare, war artists, warships, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
GIVE THANKS TO TED PIETSCH, GET INTO MY CAR: OR, AUTOMOBILES OF DREAMS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• November 13, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in automobile design, automotive design drawings, Frederic A. Sharf, Theodore W. Pietsch, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Auburn Twelve Salon Chassis, Auto Show (Miami Beach), automobiles, Buick (automobile), Chrysler (automobile), Frederic A. Sharf, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz (automobile), Packard automobiles, Sketchbooks, Studebaker, Theodore (Ted) W. Pietsch II (1912-1993), Theodore (Ted) W. Pietsch III
WAR, LA GUERRE, 戦争, AND MORE WAR! THREE FIU VISITS, A NEW RESEARCH FELLOW, AND PROMISED GIFTS COME TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• November 8, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, book art, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, concentration camp, displays, donations, Far East, Fascism, First World War (1914-1918), FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, graphic arts, History Department, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jews, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, Occupied France, Pamela K. Harer, persuasive arts, political art, posters, preservation, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, racism, rare books and special collections library, Russo-Japanese War, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian-FIU library, veterans, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Arno Breker, Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), Scultors
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