Archive for the 'bindings' Category
Varied Views for a Variety of Visitors
• December 15, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, acquisitions, African American History, Art Basel, Artists, bindings, book art, children's books, Cuba, curator, dance, Disney, displays, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, French consulate, gifts, graphic designers, library donors, Michelle Oka Doner, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Orientalism, prohibition, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff, World's fairs
Tags: 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, A. Assus, Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), Al Hirschfeld, Alex Rigorard, All the World's a Stage: The Sketchbooks and Theatrical Designs of Albert Wainwright (Wolfsonian Library installation), André Suréda, Art Basel, Atomium, celebrities, Charles Laborde (1886-1941), collecting cards, Colonies, Cuba, dancers, Daniel Morris, Donald Deskey, ephemera, Expo '58 (Brussels), Exposition coloniale internationale, FIU, FIU Professor Maria Antonieta Garcia, Folies Bergere, France, France's overseas empire, Francis Xavier Luca, French Guiana, French Orientalists, Futurama, Guyane francaise, Harlem Renaissance, Josephine Baker, La Reunion, La Tunisie, LACMA, Louis Antoni, Marco Brambilla, Maurice Bouviolle, movies stars, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (Mexico), paper toys, Paul Colin (1892-1985), pop-up books, Progressland, Prohibition, revues, Sheet music covers, singers, Sketchbooks, the Charleston (dance), tourism, Walt Disney
Graphic Design Visitors: A Bird’s-Eye View
• March 29, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in airplanes, archives, Art Deco, Artists, avant-garde aesthetics, bindings, book art, children's books, Constructivism, Cuba, dance, exhibitions, FAP, Federal One, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Italian design, library donors, Miami Ad School, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, silk screen, skyscrapers, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian Library, typography, Vienna, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian staff, WPA
Tags: Aerial Vision (Wolfsonian exhibition), aeronautics, aeropittura, Afro-Cuban dance culture, airplanes, Albino Siviero Verossi, Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi, Art Deco, Art directors, aviation, Bas van Beek, bird's-eye views, Brittany Ballinger, Brochures, catalogs, Christopher Dresser, Constructivism, curators, designers, Federal Arts Project (FAP), font, Fortunato Depero, Francis Xavier Luca, Global Strategic Communication- Creative Track, graphic art, Italian Futurism, Karel Teige (1900-1951), Lea Nickless, Lobby cards, M.AD School of Ideas, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), magazine cover art, Marlene Tosca Hunt, Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection, movie posters, Oscar Rieveling, Owen Jones, postcards, posters, Professor Albena Petrus Stoyanova, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (exhibition), Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Promotional materials, rack cards, Renato Di Bosso, Royal Academy in The Hague, Shameless (Wolfsonian exhibition), Sheet music covers, skyscrapers, transatlantic flights, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Victorian art, Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), 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
From Birthday Bash to Art Basel
• December 21, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, acquisitions, American left artists, Art Basel, bars, bindings, book art, British Army, cataloging, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, Communist Party of the United States of America, Cuba, displays, donations, exhibit cases, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Great Britain, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, leftist artists, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, Popular Front, programs, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), A Universe of Things: Micky Wolfson Collects (exhibition), Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), African American poets, Al Hirschfeld, Art Basel, Book jackets, British Empire, caricatures, Charles Cullen, Countee Cullen, Daniel Morris, Fidel Castro, FIU marching band, Follies Bergere, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Britain, Harlem Renaissance, Havana (Cuba), Havana Chronicle (magazine), Historical Design, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), illustrated books, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Judith Berson-Levinson, Lea Nickless, Leonard Finger, Livia Cinquegrano, Louis Miano, Lutron Electronics, Marianne Lamonaca, Mark B. Rosenberg, Miami Beach (Florida), Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nightclubs, Nu Deco Ensemble, poetry, Prohibition, Richard Miltner, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Roger Arvid Anderson, Saville Ryan, Shoshana Resnikoff, Souvenirs, Speak-easies, Suffragettes, tourism, tourist trade, Tropicana, U.S. Army Air Forces, VIP visitors, Washington Storage Company
In Memoriam: Dr. Marjan Groot
• June 17, 2019 • 1 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 Martí 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
Wolfsonian-FIU Library 