Archive for the 'book art' 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
Skullduggery: Happy Howl-O-Ween from The Wolf
• October 16, 2023 • 1 CommentPosted in American war propaganda, Artists, book art, curators, displays, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: Barron Gift Collier (1873-1939), book illustrators, caricaturists, Cartoonists, cartoons, dance macabre, dance with death, Death, demons, Devil, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Xavier Luca, German expressionist films, gothic poetry and stories, Halloween, Harry Clarke, horror films, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Militarism, propagandists, silent film classics, Skeletons, skulls, Tales of Mystery and Imagination / by Edgar Allan Poe, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1920), Wolfsonian Museum, World War (1914-1918)
A New Deal for the American Indian
• June 26, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Artists, book art, Civilian Conservation Corps, dance, ethnohistory, FAP, Federal One, Federal Writers' Project, Florida Writers' Project, Folklorists, forestry, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, Jews, law, Legal affairs, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Photograph albums, photography, programs, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, youth movements
Tags: American Indian Defense Association, assimilation, calendar of events, CCC, Christian missionaries, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), dances, dancing, Dawes Severalty Act (1887), Democratic National Convention, Emergency Conservation Work Agency, FAP, FDR, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Felix Cohen, Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), FWP, Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco), Great Depression, Harold L. Ickes, Index of American Design, Indian boarding schools, Indian culture, Indian Reorganization Act (1934), Indian reservations, Indian Territory, John Collier, Native American traditions, Navajo code talkers, New Dealers, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Roosevelt Administration, Roosevelt's "Tree Army", Taos Pueblos, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Works Progress Administration (WPA), WPA, Wyoming
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)
The Feminine Touch: The Artwork of Two French Africanists
• May 12, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, architecture, Artists, book art, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, France, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, international expositions, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Orientalism, pochoirs, portfolios, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, women, World's fairs
Tags: Africa, African proverbs, Algiers, artists, Au pays de Samba Diouf, Cameroon-Togo, Colonial administrators, colonial governors, colonialism, Exhibition buildings, Exposition Coloniale Internationale (Paris: 1931), female artists, Francis Xavier Luca, French colonies, French mandates, French overseas territories, indigenous architecture, indigenous peoples, Léon Truitard (1885-1972), Leon Truitard, Mary Morin, Palais de la Porte, Paris, pavilions, pochoir prints, Quelques images de la grande exposition colonial, Senegal, stencil works, Sudan, Suzanne (née Balliste) Truitard (1893-1986), Suzanne Truitard, Territoires Africains sous mandat de la France (Cameroun-Togo), Watercolor paintings, wood engravers, wood engraving
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
A March and a Dream Deferred
• January 17, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, African American History, American left artists, book art, Christopher DeNoon, Civil Rights Movement, donations, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal era, political art, racism
Tags: 1960s, Asa Philip Randolph (1869-1979), Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union, Civil Rights Act (1964), defense industries, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Executive Order 8802, Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), Francis Xavier Luca, Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963), National Voting Rights Act (1965), North Star Shining (book), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Harry Truman, Segregation in the military, Socialists, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, The Messenger (magazine), union organizers
Frankenstein’s Monsters
• October 22, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, book art, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic designers, Great Depression, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., The Wolfsonian Library
Tags: Alexander Laing, banality of evil, biological weapons, bioweapons, Cadaver of Gideon Wyck, Capitalists, Carnegie Foundation, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, coal towns, Communists, Covid, eugenics, Frankenstein, genetics, Great Depression, Halloween, horror, horror stories, laboratories, Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), mermaids, Motives of Nicholas Holtz, pandemics, plagues, Rockefeller Foundation, scientists, sterilization programs, viruses, Weird Tales (pulp periodical)
The Panama Canal as the Thirteenth Labor of Hercules
• August 15, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in Artists, book art, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Panama Canal, passenger ships, The Wolfsonian Library
Tags: Ancon, Canals, Colombia, Dams, Engineering feats, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Herculean feats, Hercules, Isthmus of Panama, locks, Miraflores Locks, Panama, Panama Canal, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco), Perham Wilhelm Nahl (American 1869-1935), reservoirs
On this day in history, 1932: The Bonus Marchers Are Driven Out of Washington, D.C.
• July 28, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, book art, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communists, donations, FDR, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, library donors, photography, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, The Bonus March, The Wolfsonian Library, veterans, World War I
Tags: 1932, Anacostia Flats, Armed Forces, BEF, Bonus Army, bonus bill, Bonus Expeditionary Forces (BEF), Bonus March, Capitol building, cavalrymen, demonstrations, ephemera, ex-servicemen, Francis Xavier Luca, Gabriel Over the White House (Film : 1933), General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), Great Depression, Hoovervilles, House of Representatives, Lafayette Park, landslide elections, Major-General Smedley Butler, Patman Veterans Bill, Police, postcards, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), presidential elections, protestors, rioting, Shanty towns, Tanks, teargas, The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Film : 1932), U.S. Senate, veterans, Walter W. Walters, Washington D.C., William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
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