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
Celebrating the Legacy of Josephine Baker
• December 16, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, African American History, Civil Rights Movement, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, colonial propaganda, Cuba, dance, displays, donations, erotic art, France, Francis Xavier Luca, French consulate, gender, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Occupied France, playbills, programs, promotional materials, racism, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Art Deco, Cabarets, celebrations, celebrities, civil rights, Consulate General of France in Miami, Copa City (nightclub : Miami Beach), cosmopolitanism, Croix de Guerre, dancers, Exposition Coloniale Internationale (Paris: 1931), Folies Bergere, French Pantheon, French Resistance, Havana (Cuba), Jazz Age, Jim Crow, Joséphine à Bobino 1975 (revue), Josephine Baker, Legion d'honneur, March on Washington (1963), modernism, naturalism, Paris (France), Paul Colin, performers, pochoirs, primitivism, Princess Tam-Tam (film : 1935), racism, segregation, singers, Siren of the Tropics (silent film : 1927), the Charleston (dance), Tropicana (Nightclub), Zouzou (film : 1934)
Cuba Mania Month
• October 1, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Artists, collectors, displays, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, library donors, memorabilia, museums, photography, programs, prohibition, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: "Mr. Babalú", 18th Amendment (Prohibition), 1919, A Century of Progress International Exposition, Affair in Havana (film : 1957), Another Thin Man (film: 1939), Art Deco, Art Loft (Public Television), Arthur Murray Dance Studios, bars, bodeguitas, Books & Books (Coral Gables), Caricaturas (Wolfsonian Library installation), caricaturists, Carol Lombard, Celia Cruz, cha cha cha, Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (film: 1956), Conrado W. Massaguer, Cuba, Cuban Caricature and Culture: The Art of Massaguer (Wolfsonian installation), Cuban Rebel Girls (film), dance, Delphic Studios (NYC), Desi Arnaz, Dick Powell, documentaries, El Figaro (magazine), El Manisero (song), Emilio Cueto, ephemera, Errol Flynn, Errol Flynn's Ghost (documentary), exploitation films, Fidel Castro, fox trot, Fred F. Sears, Fulgencio Batista, Gaspar Gonzalez, George Raft, Gerardo Machado, Gran Casino Nacional (Havana), Havana (Cuba), Havana Widows (film : 1933), Holiday in Havana (film), Hollywood actors, Joan Blondell, La Florida (bar), Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez, mambo, Mambo Italiano (song), Margo, Mary Hatcher, MGM, Miami's Vinyl Social Club, Miguelito Valdés, Moonlight in Havana (film), mulatas, music, O Cinema, Pan-Americana (film), Papa Loves Mambo (song), Perez Prado, Perry Como, record jackets, record players, Rene and Estela (dancers), rhumba, Rosa Lowinger, Rosemary Clooney, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), rumbera, Sheet music covers, Sloppy Joe's Bar, son pregon, Sound recordings, The Big Boodle (film), The Cuban Love Song (film: 1931), The Peanut Vendor (song), The Wolf on Wax, tourism, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Week-End in Havana (film: 1941), Xavier Cugat
War and Remembrance
• October 30, 2018 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1920s, 1930s, American war propaganda, Austria, displays, donations, First World War (1914-1918), FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, Great Britain, Great Depression, Harald Engman, Italy, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazism, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, War Photography, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian Education Department, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: A. G. Santagata, Anzac Memorial, Art Deco, bas relief, Bonus Expeditionary Force, C. R. W. Nevinson, Combat Hippies, Dialogues on the Experience of War, Egeo Venturi, FIU, Florida State University Institute for World War II and the Human Experience, George Grosz (1893-1959), Irving Marantz, Jean Carlu, Jessica L. Adler, Kathe Ko, Kathe Kollwitz, La Dette (the debt), lobbying, Miami Vet Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), murals, NAH, National Endowment for the Humanities, Otto Beyer, Paintings, Periodicals, portfolios, PTSD, recruiting posters, sculpture, Shell-shock, Soldiers, trenches, veterans, Vorticism, war, War and Healing, war artists, War memorials, war monuments, War photography, Wit as Weapon: Satire and the Great War (Wolfsonian library installation), World War I, Zoe Welch
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
From the United States, to the Philippines, to Tokyo, to Cuba: BAA & NEH Scholars Visit The Wolfsonian–FIU
• June 18, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, African American History, Alabama, American left artists, architecture, Artists, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, curator, displays, exhibitions, Far East, FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, graphic arts, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, leftist artists, library donors, museums, Philippine American War, Philippine-American War (1899-1902), Philippines, Photograph albums, racism, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: African-Americans, Al Jolson, Anti-communism, Art Deco, Bavarian American Academy, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, block print books, death penalty, Dr. Amy Bliss Marshall, Dr. Hitomi Yoshio, Dr. Steven Heine, electric chair, Felix Lewis, Francis Xavier Luca, Hap Hadley, Japan, Josephine Baker, Koizumi Kishio (1893-1945), Lidu Yi, lino-cut books, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Nicolae Harsanyi, Philippines, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (exhibition), Quit Cryin' the Blues, racism, Remembering Tokyo (exhibit), Rochelle Pienn, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), stereotypes, summer institutes, summer programs, Tokyo: High City and Low City, United States
LOVE KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES: A WOLFSONIAN REFLECTION ON THE SUPREME COURT RULING ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• June 27, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, Art Deco, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1920s, Art Deco, dancers, Folies Bergere, Frank MacCoy Harshberger (1900-1975), gay marriage, graphic artists, illustrated books, Kay Harshberger, life partners, lyricists, music composers, Nina Payne, Paris, same-sex marriage, Sheet music covers
A WINTER FLURRY OF UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND STUDENT VISITORS AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• January 24, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Advertisements, Andre Durenceau (1904-1985), Architects, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, automobile engines, Blackfeet Indians, calendars, Crystal Palace Exhibition (1851 : London), designers, dragons, Empire Builder, ephemera, exhibitions, Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925 :Paris), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Glacier National Park, Grammar of Ornament / by Owen Jones, graphic artists, Great Depression, Great Northern Railway, Helen West Heller (1872-1955), Holland Robinson, Industrial design, Installation Art, Kiosks, locomotives, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), mechanical works, North American Indians in art, Oriental Line, Pochoir plates, postcards, Prairie Style (Architecture), Space Society and the Digital, Store window displays, The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (1851 : London), Tori Arpad-Cotta, transparencies, typewriters, Wasmuth Portfolio, William (“Bill”) Bradley (1868-1962), Winifred Elysse Newman, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Wood and linoleum block printing, Works Progress Administration, WPA
VISITORS TO THE WOLFSONIAN DURING ART BASEL
• December 14, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, airplanes, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, automobile design, bindings, book art, cars, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, Constructivism, cruise ships, Cuba, displays, donations, El Lissitzky, Ethiopia, exhibitions, Frederic A. Sharf, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Lissitzky, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, Photograph albums, photography, political art, portfolios, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, streamlined cars, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Theodore Pietsch, Theodore W. Pietsch, trains, war propaganda, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 20th Century Limited (train), Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Advertisements, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Around the world cruises, Art Basel, Art Deco, Art deco book bindings, Art Nouveau, Austrian Secession, automobiles, Axis, Batik, book bindings, Bruno Munari (1907-1998), caricatures, Children's propaganda books, Contempo, De Stille Kracht, Depero Futurista, Display cards, Dlia Golosa, Dutch East Indies, Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954), El Lissitzky (1890-1941), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), Flying Clipper, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Frederic A. Sharf, Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946), indigenous peoples, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jeffrey Flemings, John Vassos (1898-1985), L'Inflation Sentimentale, Leonard A. Lauder, manufacturers' catalogs, Martijn F. Lecoultre, Nazis, ocean liners, Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Orion (Steamship), Pamela K. Harer, Peggy Loar, photograph albums, playing cards, pochoir prints, portfolios, postcards, Promotional materials, Richard P. Schick, Samples, Seguy, Sheet music covers, Steve Heller, Textile designs, Theodore (Ted) W. Pietsch III, Thomas C. Ragan, Ultimo, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), Wiener Werkstatte
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE: A HODGE-PODGE OF MATERIALS PULLED FOR A VARIETY OF WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY VISITORS
• May 26, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in American war propaganda, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, archives, Bauhaus, Bill Bradley, book art, Christopher DeNoon, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, Cuba, Cuba Style, David Almeida, decorative arts, Digital Library Specialist, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Frederic A. Sharf, FTP, Futurism, Genoa, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, Holocaust, international expositions, Italian design, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jews, library donors, Mellon curriculum development grant, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Shenandoah Middle School, Spanish-American War, Steve Heller, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Virtual library displays, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian Education Department, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, World's fairs, WPA, WWI, WWII
Tags: A. M. Cassandre (1901-1968), Alexander Gordon, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Bacardi archivist Patricia Suau, Bauhaus, Bill Bradley (1868-1962), calendars, Caribbean tourism, comparative colonialism, Conrado W. Massaguer, Dopolavoro, Fascist Italy, Festa dell'Uva di Rovereto, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Good Neighbor Fleet, Graphic Design & Advertising Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, Gustavo Perez-Firmat, Hendrick Nicolaas Werkman (1882-1945), Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), International exhibitions, Italian Futurism, Ken Botnick, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), Margaret Dikovitskaya, Mellon grant recipiants, Miami Ad School, Moore-McCormack Lines, New Deal America, Nicolas, Patriotic Propaganda for WOmen and Children on the Home Front (virtual exhibit), Paul Iribe (1883-1935), Professor Peter Andrew, Rex Chung, Rosanne Gibel, Stephen Austin University (Texas), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, The New York World's Fair (1939-40), Thomas C. Ragan, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, Varadero Beach (Cuba), When Hearts Are Trumps / by Tom Hall, wine, Wine Bubbly and Their Merchants (Wolfsonian Library Exhibit), Winifred Elysse Newman, Wolfsonian fellows, World's Fairs
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