Archive for the 'FIU' Category
From Prohibition and Flappers to New Dealers and the Lunatic Fringe: Wolfsonian Library Collection Highlights
• November 21, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Artists, bars, Blue eagle, Cuba, donations, FDR, Federal Art Project (FAP), Federal One, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, leftist artists, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, postcards, programs, prohibition, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: African-Americans, alcoholism, Alfred E. Neuman, beer, bootleggers, Carteles (magazine), Christopher DeNoon, Communists, Conrado Walter Massaguer, Cuba, Demagogues, Eleanor Roosevelt, fans, Father Charles Coughlin (1891-1979), Federal Art Project (FAP), Federal Music Project (FMP), Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Federal Writers' Project (FWP), flappers, Francis Townsend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, gangsters, Gibson Girls, Great Depression, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Jazz Age, Mad magazine mascot, National Recovery Administration, New Deal art, new woman ideal, NRA, postcards, Prohibition (1919-1933), rum runners, sheet music, Sheet music covers, Social (magazine), Socialists, speakeasies, the New Boy, Upton Sinclair, Vicki Gold Levi, Works Progress Administration (WPA), WPA
The Wolfsonian Library Unwrapped
• July 29, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, American architects, architects, architecture, Armistice Day, Art Deco, collectors, exhibitions, FIU, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Depression, hotels, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museum architecture, museums, photography, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: Albert Wainwright, archives, Art Deco District, compact shelving, concrete repair, construction, costume design, expansion, façades, Florida International University, Hurricanes, IMLS, libraries, library installations, Mansions, Mark Hampton, Mediterranean revival architecture, Miami Beach history, museum facilities, renovation, Spanish-influenced architecture, storage facilities, the Great Hurricane of 1926, the Matthews family, The Wolfsonian, theater set design, University of Salamanca, Washington Storage Company, Washington Storage Company archive
Dr. Laurence Miller: Librarian, Mentor, Friend, and Cruise Line Collector
• March 17, 2023 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1950s, acquisitions, cataloging, collectors, cruise ships, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, exhibitions, FIU, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Green Library, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, transatlantic voyages, volunteers, Wolfsonian staff, world cruises
Tags: Blue Star Line, Bon Voyage (Wolfsonian library exhibit), Carnival Cruise Line, cruise line aficionados, cruise line industry, deck plans, digital collections, Dr. Laurence Miller, Elise and Bill Holloway Collection, Elise Grace Holloway, Fantasy (cruise ship), Gaucho, Grace Line, Great White Fleet, Laurence Miller Collection, Manhattan (steamship), Michelangelo (steamship), Pennsylvania (cargo ship), Promotional materials, Raffaello (steamship), Reina del Pacifico (steamship), S.S. Leopoldville, Santa Elena (cargo ship), Santa Lucia (cargo ship), Santa Paula (cargo ship), Santa Rosa (steamship), ship captains, Thomas C. Ragan Collection, United Fruit Company, Vicki Gold Levi, Washington (steamship)
Turning the Beat Around at a Concert With Palo!
• February 23, 2023 • 1 CommentPosted in collectors, Cuba, curators, dance, donations, FIU, Florida International University, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: Afro-Cuban dance culture, Afro-Cuban funk, Afro-Cuban music, Boxeo y Beisbol: The Cuba-U.S. Sports Exchange, Brittany Ballinger, Caricaturas (Wolfsonian Library installation), Cha-cha-cha, concerts, conga, Cuba: From Gunboat Diplomacy to Good Neighbor Policy (Wolfsonian Library exhibit), Cuban Caricature and Culture: The Art of Massaguer (Wolfsonian installation), exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, Latin jazz, library installations, mambo, Miami Beach Bandshell, Miami Soundscapes, OS Photography Studio, Palo!, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Rhythm Foundation, Richard Miltner, rumba, Steve Roitstein, The Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition : Oct. 2022-April 2023)
“Seeing Sounds” and “Geo-graphic” Flash Exhibits and Swinging Latin Jazz
• December 17, 2022 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Artists, Cuba, curator, curators, dance, displays, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, interns, library donors, museums, posters, student curators, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: "El Manisero" (song), "Geo-graphic" (FIU flash installation), "Mambo Madness" (song), "Mambo No. 8" (song), "Manteca" (song), "Seeing Sounds" (FIU flash installation), Afro-Cuban jazz, Afro-Cuban music, album covers, Another Thin Man (film: 1939), cha cha cha, Cha- Cha- Cha- Boom! (film: 1956), Chano Pozo, Claudia Moltalvo, conga, FIU Latin Jazz Ensemble, Graphic design, Graphic Design III, interns, Lobby cards, mambo, Moonlight in Havana (film: 1942), music posters, Pan-Americana (film : 1945), Perez Prado, Plotting Power (Wolfsonian exhibitions), pop-up exhibitions, printmaking, Professor Michael Eckroth, Professor Printz, Professor Silvia Pease, Rhythm of the Mambo (film short: 1949), rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), Sheet music covers, Silkscreened posters, Too Many Girls (film: 1940), Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition), Victoria Calveira, video clips
Behind the Scenes of an Installation Examining the Cuban and American Dance Scene
• August 13, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, collectors, Cuba, curators, dance, donations, exhibitions, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, interns, library donors, memorabilia, museums, persuasive arts, photography, postcards, posters, promotional materials, Puerto Rico, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi
Tags: Afro-Cuban dance culture, Afro-Cuban jazz, cha cha cha, conga, Cuba pavilion, curatorial work, Exhibition planning, Havana (Cuba), Hollywood musicals, installations, mambo, murals, New York World's Fair (1939-1940), percussion, postcards, record album covers, rumba, salsa, Sheet music covers, storyboards, tourism, Tropicana (Nightclub), Victoria Calveira
Vacation and Representation
• August 3, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Artists, collectors, colonial tourism, cruise ships, donations, Far East, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, interns, Japan, library donors, ocean liners, Orientalism, passenger ships, Philippines, promotional materials, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff, world cruises
Tags: Advertisements, American President Lines, Asians, Chinese, Clippings, cruise line industry, Elany Sunez, Elise Grace Holloway, ephemera, Filipinos, Grace Line, indigenous peoples, Japanese Empire, library interns, Maxwell Sunez, ocean liners, SS President Hoover (ship), the Orient, tourist trade, Yokohama (Japan)
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
Lynd Ward’s Graphic Novels of the Depression Decade
• January 23, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, book art, FIU, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, Great Depression, Honor's College, leftist artists, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal era, political art, skyscrapers, slums, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: Alois Kolb, anxiety, artists, Black Lives Matter, capitalist critiques, Death, demonstrations, expectant mothers, factories, Fascism, Faust, Frans Masereel, Georg A. Mathey, German Expressionism, God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts (1929), graphic novels, Great Depression, Hans Alexander Mueller, Harry F. Ward, homelessness, industrial buildings, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), lynchings, Madman's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts (1930), Militarism, National Academy of Graphic Arts (Leipzig), National Guard, Police, Prelude to a Million Years: A Book of Wood Engravings (1933), protests, relief lines, rollercoasters, sequential art storytelling, slave trade, slavery, smokestacks, social unrest, Socialists, Song Without Words: A Book of Engravings on Wood (1936), starvation, strikes, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1920), Upsurge / by Robert Gessner, Vertigo: A Novel in Woodcuts (1937), vigilantes, violence, Wild Pilgrimage: A Novel in Woodcuts (1932), wood engravers, wood engraving, Woodcuts, wordless novels
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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