Archive for July, 2022
Judging Pulps by Their Covers
• July 28, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Artists, book art, cataloging, collectors, donations, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic designers, interns, library donors, rare books and special collections library, romance, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff, women
Tags: adventure stories, Argosy (magazine), blurbs, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, cover illustration art, damsels in distress, detectives, Dolores Hitchens, femininity, Frank Kane, gender issues, heteronormativity, Howard Schoenfeld, Let Them Eat Bullets (novel), masculinity, Michael Cuervo, Poisons Unknown (novel), pulp fiction, pulp magazines, pulp paperbacks, Pulps, sex appeal, Stairway to an Empty Room (novel)
Gender, Race & Ethnicity in Turkish Caricature
• July 1, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, architecture, collectors, colonialism, donations, Ethiopia, Fascism, fashion, fashion for women, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, Italy, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, propaganda, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda
Tags: Akbaba (magazine), Arabs, Arkitekt (periodical), Armenian massacres, burqas, caricature, cheesecake, clothing and dress, Dr. Onursal Erol, Ethiopians, ethnic cleansing, ethnicity, expulsion, Fascism, fashion, gender issues, globes, indigenous peoples, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jews, Karikatur (magazine), legs, magazine cover art, Mimar (periodical), modernization, Mustafa Kemel Ataturk (?-1938), nationalism, Nazism, Ottoman Empire, pogroms, race, racial stereotypes, Republic of Turkey, secularization, stereotypes, sunbathing, tanks (military science), tanning, The Republic (Turkish newspaper), Turkification, war, Wolfsonian fellows, women's fashion, Women's rights
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