Divergent Perspectives of Emperor Ménélik II: From Satirical to Honorable Tributes
• April 16, 2024 • 1 CommentPosted in accessioning, acquisitions, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Ethiopia, graphic arts, Italy, museums, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library
Tags: Battle of Adwa (1896), caricatures, Charles Léandre, chocolate promotional materials, Chocolaterie D’Aiguebelle, collecting cards, East Africa, emperors, Ethiopia, First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-1896), FIU students, Italian Prime Minister Francesco Crispi, Le Rire (magazine), Matthieu Castillo, Ménélik II (Emperor of Ethiopia), Négus, stereotypes, Treaty of Addis Ababa (1896), Wolfsonian interns
Gags, Censorship, and Gagging
• March 23, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Cuba, curators, exhibitions, Fascism, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal era, Pamela K. Harer, persuasive arts, photography, photomontage, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, Russia, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian Library, totalitarian, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: "Degenerate" art, algorithms, American League Against War and Fascism, Arthur Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) caricatures, Audrey Feldman, August Mecklem Estate, Barron Gift Collier (1873-1939), Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), book banning, book burning, caricatures, cartoons, Censorship, Charles Coughlin, Collier's (magazine), Communism, Conrado Walter Massaguer, conspiracy theories, crown of thorns, dictators, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Entartete "Kunst" Ausstellung, Fascism, First Amendment, Francis Xavier Luca, freedom of speech, gagging, gags, Gerardo Machado (1871-1939), German Crown Prince, globes, Harald Engman, hate speech, Huey P. Long, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Instagram, J. P. Morgan, Jazz music, John Heartfield (1891-1968), Jordan Klepper, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Leonard A. Lauder, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Lusitania (Steamship), Maps, Michael Rosenfeld, Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), Mundt-Nixon Bill, National Socialism, Nazi-occupied territories, Nazis, Neutrality, Pamela K. Harer, Paul Iribe (1883-1935), Photomontage, Plotting Power (Wolfsonian exhibitions), Sam Gross, skulls, Smith Act, Social (magazine), Soviet Union, spiders, The Evil Prince / by Hans Christian Andersen, The Saturday Evening Post (magazine), trolling, trolls, Tyrants and Terrorists: Satirists Bite Back (Wolfsonian Library installation), Ukraine famine, vampire bats, Vanity Fair (magazine), Vicki Gold Levi, William Gropper (1897-1977), William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
Some Things Gross: Scatological Humor Aimed at Hitler and his Henchmen
• March 4, 2023 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, 1940s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, antisemitism, curators, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazism, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
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Turning the Beat Around: Spotlight on Xavier Cugat
• November 19, 2022 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, collectors, Cuba, curators, dance, donations, exhibitions, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, interns, library donors, museums, photography, rare books and special collections library, restaurants, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: A Date With Judy (1948), Abbe Lane (singer and actress), Afro-Cuban music, album covers, bandleaders, Bathing Beauty (1944), Cafe Trocadero (dinner club), caricatures, caricaturists, Carmen Castillo, Casa Cugat (dinner club), Catalonia, cha cha cha, Charlie Chaplin, Charo (singer), Chicago Syndicate (1955), chihuahuas, classical violin, Cocoanut Grove (nightclub), conga, conga drums, Conga-land (songbook), Conrado Walter Massaguer, Cuba, Cuban bandleaders, Cuban musicians, Desi Arnaz (1917-1986), El Grafico (magazine), Enrico Caruso, Entertainers, female musicians, Francis Xavier Luca, George Raft, Go West Young Man (film: 1936), Holiday in Mexico (1946), Hollywood, In Gay Madrid (film: 1930), Lorraine Allen, Los Angeles, Luxury Liner (1948), mambo, Margo (dancer), Miguelito Valdés, musicians, My Sister Eileen (film: 1942), Neptune's Daughter (1949), New York City, On an Island With You (1948), Orquesta Sinfónica del Teatro Nacional (Havana), photographs, Rosalind Russell, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), Rumba Is My Life (autobiography), Sheet music covers, singers, Starlight Roof (Waldorf-Astoria Hotel), Ten Cents a Dance (film: 1931), The Gigalos (septet), The Heat's On (1943), The Xavier Cugat Show (1957), Tito Rodríguez, Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition : Oct. 2022-April 2023), violinists, Waldorf-Astoria, Week-End at the Waldorf (1945), wives, Xavier Cugat (1900-1990), Yma Sumac, You Were Never Lovelier (film : 1942), You Were Never Lovelier (film: 1942)
Conrado Massaguer Exhibition on Google Arts and Culture
• December 22, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, archives, Artists, collectors, Cuba, curator, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
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Havana, Cuba: America’s Former Premier Tourist Destination
• January 15, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, acquisitions, architects, architecture, Art Deco, Artists, bars, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Cuba, dance, displays, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, library donors, memorabilia, museums, postcards, posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: architecture, Arcos de Cristal, Ava Gardner, Bacardi, bats, Biltmore Hotel chain, Cabarets, Capri Hotel (1957), Caricaturas (Wolfsonian Library installation), caricatures, caricaturists, Carteles (magazine), Casinos, cha cha cha, Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (film: 1956), Charles Francis Flynn, Coca-cola, Comodoro Hotel (1955), Conrado Walter Massaguer, Cuban Caricature and Culture: The Art of Massaguer (Wolfsonian installation), Cuban exiles, Cuban Institute of Tourism, Cuban Tourist Commission, daiquiris, Desi Arnaz (1917-1986), Dick Powell, El Figaro (magazine), Emilio Cueto, Fidel Castro, Film noir, Frank Sinatra, Fulgencio Batista, gangsters, Gerardo Machado (1871-1939), Glamour, Grafico (magazine), Gran Casino Nacional (Havana), Guys and Dolls (film : 1955), Habana Hilton, Havana (Cuba), Havana: The Magazine of Cuba, honeymooners, Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Joan Blondell, John McEntee Bowman, mafiosa, Mary Hatcher, McKim Mead and White (architectural firm), New York World's Fair (1939-1940), Oscar Massaguer, Our Man in Havana (film: 1959), Pier Five Havana (film : 1959), political refugees, political satire, Prohibition (1919-1933), public relations, publishers, Ramon Arroyo Cisneros (Arroyito), Riviera Hotel (1957), roulette, rum, Schultze and Weaver (architectural firm), Sevilla-Biltmore, Social (magazine), Tim Hossler, tourism, Tropicana (Nightclub), Uncle Sam, University of Kansas, vacation destinations, Victory Gold Levi Collection
From Birthday Bash to Art Basel
• December 21, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, acquisitions, American left artists, Art Basel, bars, bindings, book art, British Army, cataloging, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, Communist Party of the United States of America, Cuba, displays, donations, exhibit cases, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Great Britain, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, leftist artists, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, Popular Front, programs, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), A Universe of Things: Micky Wolfson Collects (exhibition), Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), African American poets, Al Hirschfeld, Art Basel, Book jackets, British Empire, caricatures, Charles Cullen, Countee Cullen, Daniel Morris, Fidel Castro, FIU marching band, Follies Bergere, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Britain, Harlem Renaissance, Havana (Cuba), Havana Chronicle (magazine), Historical Design, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), illustrated books, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Judith Berson-Levinson, Lea Nickless, Leonard Finger, Livia Cinquegrano, Louis Miano, Lutron Electronics, Marianne Lamonaca, Mark B. Rosenberg, Miami Beach (Florida), Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nightclubs, Nu Deco Ensemble, poetry, Prohibition, Richard Miltner, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Roger Arvid Anderson, Saville Ryan, Shoshana Resnikoff, Souvenirs, Speak-easies, Suffragettes, tourism, tourist trade, Tropicana, U.S. Army Air Forces, VIP visitors, Washington Storage Company
Radicals and Reactionaries: Extremism in America
• October 30, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Alabama, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, Children's propaganda books, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, curators, displays, donations, Fascism, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, Popular Front, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Scottsboro Trial, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian Library, totalitarian, Wolfsonian library
Tags: Black Legion, caricatures, Communist Front, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), dictators, Father Charles Coughlin, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert, Humphrey Bogart, James W. Ford, Jim Crowism, Karl Liebknecht, Ku Klux Klan, Langston Hughes, lynchings, NAACP, Nazi sympathizers, New Pioneer (magazine), poets, Popular Front, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial, Spartacus Uprising (1919), W. E. B. DuBois, William Randolph Hearst, Young Pioneers, youth movements
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
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Italian Ethiopia at The Wolfsonian Library
• August 6, 2019 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, colonial propaganda, colonialism, donations, Ethiopia, Fascism, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gender, gifts, Great Britain, Italy, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, passenger ships, Photograph albums, political art, portfolios, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Abissinia, Addis Abeba (Ethiopia), Akbaba (magazine), anthropology, anti-imperialism, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Ascari troops, atrocities, Aurelio Bertiglia, Autarky, Battle of Adwa, Benito Mussolini, Black Venus, British Somaliland, calendars, caricatures, collecting cards, Compagnia Italiana Liebig (Milano), Daniel Morris, East Africa, Enrico Cerulli, Eritrea, fans, fasces, gallows, General Baratieri, Haile Selassie, Harry Gannes, Historical Design, History Revealed, Il Travaso delle Idee, Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-1896), Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), James De Lorenzi, James W. Ford, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, League of Nations, Maps, March on Rome (1922), Marshal Graziani, Menelik II, military conquest, Ministero Africa Italiana, National Fascist Party (PNF), Nero, North African migrants, Orientalism, Orientalists, poison gas, postcards, Red Cross, road-building, school notebooks, sexual conquest, Sheet music covers, slavery, Tanks, Vulcania (steamship)
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