Archive for October, 2020
Historical Horrors for Halloween
• October 30, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Artists, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, donations, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hengeler (1863-1927), Barron Gift Collier (1873-1939), bats, bellboys, Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965), Communists, Death, demons, devils, Fascists, Frankenstein, gargoyles, ghouls, Grim Reaper, Halloween, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Jurgen Freese, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Light bulbs, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), monsters, Nazis, Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, ogres, Skeletons, skulls, The Belboy (film : 1960_, Vampires, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
When Funding Art Was the Federal Response to Economic Crisis
• October 7, 2020 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, Artists, bindings, Blue eagle, book art, Christopher DeNoon, curators, donations, exhibitions, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Federal Writers' Project, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Florida Writers' Project, Folklorists, Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, FWP, gifts, graphic arts, Great Depression, Haiti, History Department, library donors, Living Newspaper, Macbeth, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, political art, posters, rare books and special collections library, student curators, The Wolfsonian Library, theatre, theatrical producers, WPA
Tags: AMH 3317 America & Movies: The Great Depression in Film and History, Benjamin Messier, Canada Lee, classical music, Claudia Mendoza, FAP, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Federal funding for the Arts, Federal Music Project (FMP), Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Federal Writers' Project (FWP), FMP, folk traditions, Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), FTP, FWP, Giovanni Bombace, Haiti, Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), Henri Christophe, John Houseman, Kathleen Dowling, National Recovery Administration (NRA), Nikolai Sokoloff, Orson Welles (1915-1985), Posters for the People: Art of the WPA (2008), Posters of the WPA (1987), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Unemployment, Voodoo Macbeth (Federal Theatre Project), William Sam, Wolfsonian library, WPA
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