Archive for the 'Soviet propaganda' Category
OVERT / COVERT: MIAMI DADE COLLEGE STUDENTS USE WOLFSONIAN ART OBJECTS TO DECODE THE ICONOGRAPHY OF LABOR
• April 18, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, Aryans, CCC, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Constructivism, curators, FAP, Fascism, FDR, Federal One, Futurism, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), interns, Italian design, Italy, leftist artists, Miami Dade College, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, photography, photomontage, political art, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, skyscrapers, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA, youth movements
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Amanda E. Caceres, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Bill Iverson, Carolina Gutierrez, Cecilia Arellano, Charlie Chaplin, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Diana E. Lopez, Fascist Italy, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Freedom Tower, Giselle Gonzalez, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Italian Futurism, Jonathan Sanabria, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Juan D. Rojas, labor, Lea Nickless, Lewis Hine (1874-1940), Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), Marta Palao, Miami Dade College, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Study Centre, Modern Times (film), Museum of Art + Design, National Socialism, Nazi Germany, neo-classicism, New Deal, Overt/Covert (exhibition), Photomontage, propaganda, Russian Constructivism, Savannah Diaz, Soviet Union, student curators, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), work, working class, Yanelis Valdes
CHARLIE, OR NOT CHARLIE: A WOLFSONIAN REFLECTION ON ATHEISM, RELIGIOUS SATIRE, AND TOLERANCE IN THE WAKE OF THE CHARLIE HEBDO MASSACRE
• January 17, 2015 • 2 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Artists, Communism, Communists, conflict and resolution, donations, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Jews, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: Adam and Eve, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deineka (1899-1969), anticlericalism, atheism, Atheist at the Lathe, babushkas, Bezbozhnik u stanka, blasphemy, Bombs, caricatures, cartoons, Cathedral of Christ the Savior (Moscow), Censorship, Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), Charlie Brown, Charlie Hebdo, Christianity, controversy, demonstrations, Dmitrii Stakheivich Moor (1883-1946), editorial decisions, editors, Father Georgy Gapon (1870-1906), Fête de la Raison, feminism, foxes, François Cavanna, François Hollande, François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), France, freedom from religion, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, French President Jacques Chirac, French Revolution, Genesis, Georges Bernier, God, Hara-Kiri (monthly magazine), hate speech, irreverence, Islam, Jesus Christ, Judaism, lampoons, M. Kostelovskaia, Mohammed, Muslim extremists, Nicolas Sarkozy, Peanuts, performance art, Prophet Mohammed, protests, provocation, Pussy Riot, religion, religious fundamentalism, religious tolerance, Republican values, Russia, Russian Orthodox priests, Satire, secular society, self-censorship, separation of church and state, Sharia law, Soviet Union, Stéphane Charbonnier, Terrorism, terrorists, the Age of Enlightenment, the Bible, turbans, veils, violence, Vladimir Putin, Voltaire
RUSSIA, CRIMEA AND UKRAINE IN THE 1930s: RECENT WOLFSONIAN ACQUISITIONS
• April 11, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Communism, donations, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: American tourists in U.S.S.R, Annexations, Anti-Communist Propaganda, Battleship Potemkin (film : 1925), Black Sea ports, Boulevard Steps (Odessa), Charkow (Karkov), Crimea, Crimean War (1854-1855), Dnjepropetrovsk, Kiev (Ukraine), Kremlin, Lea Nickless, Livadia (Yalta), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., NPR, Odessa (Ukraine), Odessa Steps, Palace of State Industry (Ukraine), Petershof (Leningrad), Potemkin Steps, Propaganda posters, Red Square, Russia, Secession movements, Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), Soviet museums, Soviet Union, tourism, tourist trade, U.S.S.R., Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Winter Olympic Games (Sochi), Winter Palace (St. Petersburg), Yalta
CURATORS AND COLLECTORS MEET TO DISCUSS WOLFSONIAN FELIKS TOPOLSKI EXHIBITION PLANS
• January 24, 2014 • 2 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, British Army, Children's propaganda books, collectors, Communists, displays, donations, exhibitions, gifts, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, photography, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: 1939-1945, Alexander Nevsky (film : 1938), Archangel, Blitz, Elinor J. Brecher, Feliks Topolski (1907-1989), Hitler-Stalin Pact, Katyn forest massacre, Leo Brecher, London (England), Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), Molotov-Ribbentrop Nonaggression Pact, Moscow, Panama Canal, Picture Post magazine, Poland, Red Army, Red Square, Russia at War / photographs by Margaret Bourke-White (London; New York: Hutchinson & Co. 1942?), Russia in War (London: Metheun & Co 1942), Russian front, Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Sound recordings, Soviet Union, Steven Heller, Teresa Topolski, war artists, War photography, World War
CRY “HAVOC!” AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR: PROPAGANDA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• December 19, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, donations, exhibitions, gifts, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, library donors, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, Pamela K. Harer, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian rare books ephemera special collections periodicals Florida International University antiquarian propaganda persuasive arts design museum research provocative, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Aidan O'Connor, American eagles, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, animal allegories, Anti-German propaganda, appeasement, Belgium, Boche, bulldogs, Century of the Child: Growing by Design 1900-2000, Charles Lindbergh, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, curators, Dachshunds, Democratic donkey, doghouses, dogs in art, Donald Thompson Carlisle (1894-?), Dutch duck, Fifth Columnists, Flags, Francis Xavier Luca, Gallic rooster, German shepherds, German-occupied Belgium, German-occupied France, German-occupied Netherlands, Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946), Illustrated children's books, Illustrated Postal Card & Novelty Company (New York), jeeps, Jews, John Bull, Joseph Miscione, Juliet Kinchin, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Leiws Christopher Edward Baumer (1870-1963), loans, Marianne, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), Nicodemus helps Uncle Sam, Occupied territories, orphans, parodies, Patriotism, poodles, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, propaganda in educational media, rabid dogs, Randolph Caldecott, Rats, Refugee children, Russian bear, satires, spiked helmets, Tanks, The Mad Dog of Potsdam, The Ordeal of Oliver Airdale, Uncle Sam, Vater ist im Kriege, Viktor Nikolaevich Deni (1893-1946), war refugees, Wolfsonian museum loans, wolves, Woodrow Wilson, Yussuf the Ostrich
LET’S GET GRAPHIC!
• August 25, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, New Deal, Soviet propaganda, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: colonialism, European imperialism, graphic statistics, New Deal America, Soviet Union, Statistically Speaking, statistics
EVIL INCARNATE: GOULISH GIANTS, GRASPING HANDS, AND GRIM REAPERS AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• October 13, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in Anti-Nazi propaganda, Communism, Florida International University students, propaganda, propaganda posters, Soviet propaganda, Spanish Civil War, totalitarian, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library collection, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: evil, Kenneth Johnson