Archive for the 'Folklorists' Category
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
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
Caricaturist Conrado W. Massaguer and His Contemporaries
• August 20, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, curator, donations, exhibitions, Fascism, Folklorists, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, photography, political art, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian staff, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler caricatures, Alfredo de Zayas y Alfonso, American Weekly (magazine), Armando G. Menocal y G. Menocal, Axis, Babe Ruth, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Bohemia (magazine), Bohemia Libre (magazine), Calvin Coolidge, caricatures, caricaturists, celebrities, celebrity culture, Charles de Gualle, Charlie Chaplin, Chian Kai-shek, Conrado W. Massaguer, Cuba, Cuban caricaturists, Cuban exiles, Cuban presidents, Cubans, DiazCasas Collection, dictators, Diego Rivera, Don Alfonso XIII, Duke of WIndsor, Emperor Hirohito of Japan, Enrico Caruso, Fidel Castro, Florence Mills, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Fulgencio Batista, games, General Francisco Carillo, Gerardo Machado, Ghandi, Harlem Renaissance, John D. Rockefeller, Jose Cecilio Hernandez Cardenas (Hercar), Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Juan Eduardo David Posada (David), Karikato (magazine), King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Latin American illustrators, Martijn F. Le Coultre, mass media, Maurice Chavalier, Mexican caricaturists, Mexico, Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), movie stars, Nazis, New Yorker (magazine), Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Paul Whiteman, pictorial wit and humor, playing cards, politicians, portraits, Prince of Wales, public opinion, Queen Elizabeth II, Ramon Arroyo Cisneros (Arroyito), Ramon Grau San Martin, record album covers, Romulo Betancourt, Salon de Humoristas, Santa Claus, Satire, self-portraits, Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Social (magazine), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Vanity Fair (magazine), world leaders, Xavier Cugat (1900-1990), Yucef Merhi
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES THROUGH WESTERN EYES: VISITS TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY BY SOME COLOMBIAN SCHOLARS AND A GROUP OF YOUNG AFRICAN LEADERS
• July 15, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Boers, colonial propaganda, colonialism, decorative arts, displays, donations, Ethiopia, ethnohistory, FIU, Folklorists, gifts, graphic arts, Italian design, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, ocean liners, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, South African War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Zulus
Tags: Art Deco posters, Aurelio Bertiglia (1891-?), Avram Glazer, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Block books, Boer Wars, carpets, Escuela de Diseno Grafico, Ethiopia, Frederic A. Sharf, Frijoles Canyon Pictoraphs, Great Northern Railway, Gustave Baumann, Hoke Denetsosie, Indian art, Indian culture, Indian dancers, indigenous art, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jill Glazer, John Collier, Jose Jairo Vargas, Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), Luz Helena Ballestas Rincon, Maude Oakes, medicine man, Native American art, Native American culture, Navaho, Navaho rugs, Navaho War ceremonial, Navajo, Navajo Indian Reservation, New Deal, Pictographs, Plains Indians, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, primers, sand paintings, Santa Fe (New Mexico), School of Graphic Design at the National University of Colombia, South African Wars, Symbols, Turkish periodicals, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Winold Reiss (1886-1953)
VISIT BY MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS IN MA PROGRAM AT FIU
• January 23, 2010 • Leave a CommentPosted in Andrea Kalin, Brian Orfall, documentaries, Federal Writers' Project, Florida Writers' Project, Folklorists, Michael Littman, Oral history, Spark Media, Stetson Kennedy, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Miami Dade County school teachers, Teaching American History Master's Degree Program
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