Archive for the 'bindings' Category
In Memoriam: Dr. Marjan Groot
• June 17, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in bindings, book art, cataloging, curators, decorative arts, Dutch Art Nouveau, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, graphic arts, graphic designers, museums, Nieuwe Kunst, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: Anna Sipkema, Art historians, Christie van der Haak, Cornelia van der Hart, cultural anthropologists, Dutch artists, Dutch decorative arts, Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, Elisabeth Brandt, fellows, Lynton Gardiner, maker's marks, Marjan Groot (1959-2019), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Modern Dutch Design (Wolfsonian exhibition 2016-2017), scholars, The Netherlands, Willemina Drupsteen, Willemina Polenaar, Women designers
The Harlem Renaissance Comes to The Wolfsonian
• February 22, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, African American History, Artists, bindings, Civil Rights Movement, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, dance, decorative arts, displays, donations, erotic art, ethnohistory, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, Great Britain, Great Depression, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal era, pochoirs, portfolios, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Aaron Douglas, African American art, African American artists, African American performers, African American poets, Alain LeRoy Locke, America & Movies: The Black Image in Hollywood and History, Body and Soul (film: 1925), Charles Cullen, colonialism, Countee Cullen, Daniel Morris, Elanor Colburn, Folies Bergere, Harlem Renaissance, Harmon Foundation, Historical Design, James Weldon Johnson, Jazz Age, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Le Tumulte Noir, Mabel Dwight, madonna, Miguel Covarrubias, modernism, mothers and children, NAACP, naturalism, Negro Uplift, Oscar Micheaux, Paul Colin, Paul Robeson, poetry, primitivism, the Charleston (dance), The Crisis, The Emperor Jones (film: 1933), The New Negro: An Interpretation, Winold Reiss, Zora Neale Hurston
Graphic Art Selling Revolution, Jewelry, and War
• June 27, 2018 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Art Deco, bindings, collectors, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Earthquakes, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Russo-Japanese War, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: accordian-style bindings, Alphabet art, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Art Basel (Miami 2018), Art Deco, branding, Charlotte Camille, chromolithographs, Constructing Revolution (Wolfsonian exhibition), Constructivism, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Eric Silverman, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), font, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Friedrich Nietzsche, Geishas, Georges Lemmen (1865-1957), graphic art, Great Japan Earthquake of 1923, Greeting cards, H5 Group, Henry C. Van de Velde (1863-1957), Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), Home front, Italian Futurism, Italian futurists, Japanese art, jewelry, Kurt Hans Volk (1883-1962), Kyowa Kirin, Ladislav Sutnar (1897-1976), logos, Ludovic Houplain, Maxime Vandenabeele, Patriotism, pins, pochoir, propaganda fans, Rad Sutnar, Raoul Cenisi (1912-1991), Red and Black: Revolution in Soviet Propaganda Graphics (Wolfsonian Library installation), Richline Group, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Second World War, Steve Heller, Svetlana Silverman, Tamao Watanabe, Tullio Crali (1910-2000), typography, Victory Gold Levi Collection
Celebrating Black History Month
• February 28, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, African American History, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, bindings, book art, children's books, Civil Rights Movement, Communism, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), museums, New Deal era, political art, Popular Front, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: African American history, African-American heroes, African-American role models, African-Americans, American League Against War and Fascism, August Mecklem Estate, Black History Month, calendars, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Crypt Cracking, family life, Frederic Douglass, God's Man: A Novel In Woodcuts, graphic novels, Harlem, Harriet Tubman, heroes, Into the Stacks, Joe Louis, Knight Foundation, Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), May McNeer, Nathaniel Sandler, North Star Shining / by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, Novels, Patricia Frisella, poetry, protest poetry, race, racism, segregation, Socialism, Socialists, sociology, The Darker Brother / by Bucklin Moon, The Great Migration, The Negro Family / by E. Franklin Frazier, The Third Generation / by Chester B. Himes, Upsurge / by Robert Gessner, Wood and linoleum block printing, wood block prints, wood engraving
From Magazines to Zines
• February 7, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, African American History, Bernarr Macfadden, bindings, book art, CCC, children's books, circuses, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, displays, donations, fashion, fashion for women, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Lloyd Wright, fur, gender, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Pamela K. Harer, Physical culture, postcards, programs, racism, rare books and special collections library, Robert J. Young, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, typography, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, youth movements, Zines
Tags: A-D (magazine), AIZ (magazine), Amazing Stories (pulp magazine), animal exploitation, Anti-Asian prejudice, beauty culture, Black Lives Matter movement, Black Venus, body image, bolt bindings, book bindings, Braddock, branding, carbon paper, cartoons, CCC camp zines, CCC camps, Circuses, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, David Almeida, Dust Bowl, Elizabeth Zoe Welch, Environmental movement, Ethiopia, Expo '74 (Spokane), fanzines, foils, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Fourth of July, Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Buck, fur, gay/lesbian literature, Gender roles, Gina Wouters, Hialeah Gardens, iPrep, Italian futurists, jokes, José Martà MAST, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, La Revue Ford (magazine), Law Enforcement Senior High, LGBTQ, Louis C. Tiffany & Co., Magazines, Miami Beach High, Miami Norland, Miami-Dade County schoolteachers, mimeograph machines, news, objectification of women, Patriotism, Periodicals, photocopiers, Photomontage, Physical Culture (magazine), plastic bindings, poetry, prejudice, pulp magazines, pulp paperbacks, Ring (magazine), science fiction, sexual orientation, Sheet music covers, South Miami, Southwest Miami, stereotypes, tailored suits, Terra, textiles, the "Me Too" movement, the Blues, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, transparencies, Uncle Sam, Vanity Fair (magazine), Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Wells Fargo, Wendingen (magazine), womanizing, Zines
UNSEEN WILLIAM H. BRADLEY WORKS IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• April 6, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in Bill Bradley, bindings, book art, graphic arts, graphic designers, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nieuwe Kunst, posters, rare books and special collections library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: Advertising art, Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts movement, Ault and Wiborg Company, Chap-Book, Colombina, Commerial art, Inland Printer, Nicolae Harsanyi, Pantalone, Periodicals, printing ink companies, William H. Bradley (1868-1962), William Morris, Wolfsonian library installations
TWO EMPIRES, ONE PUBLISHER: TWO MONUMENTAL BOOKS IN THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• July 10, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in Austria, bindings, collectors, donations, gifts, library donors, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vienna, Vienna Secession, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Art Nouveau, Austrian Empire, Austrian history, book design, Central Europe, Devrin Weiss, elephant folios, Emperor Franz Joseph, German Empire, German history, Heinrich Lefler (1863-1919), Joh. Jos. Tautenhayn, Joseph Urban, Joseph Urban (1872-1933), Kaiser Wilhelm II, lining papers, Ludwig Huber, Max Herzig, Michael Hughes, Rudolf von Larish (1856-1934)
