The Feminine Touch: The Artwork of Two French Africanists
• May 12, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, architecture, Artists, book art, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, France, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, international expositions, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Orientalism, pochoirs, portfolios, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, women, World's fairs
Tags: Africa, African proverbs, Algiers, artists, Au pays de Samba Diouf, Cameroon-Togo, Colonial administrators, colonial governors, colonialism, Exhibition buildings, Exposition Coloniale Internationale (Paris: 1931), female artists, Francis Xavier Luca, French colonies, French mandates, French overseas territories, indigenous architecture, indigenous peoples, Léon Truitard (1885-1972), Leon Truitard, Mary Morin, Palais de la Porte, Paris, pavilions, pochoir prints, Quelques images de la grande exposition colonial, Senegal, stencil works, Sudan, Suzanne (née Balliste) Truitard (1893-1986), Suzanne Truitard, Territoires Africains sous mandat de la France (Cameroun-Togo), Watercolor paintings, wood engravers, wood engraving
France’s Overseas Empire on Display
• November 27, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, architects, architecture, Art Deco, colonial propaganda, colonialism, displays, ethnohistory, exhibitions, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, international expositions, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, World's fairs
Tags: Africa, Albert Laprade, Alfred Janniot, Anja Decker, Arthur Dupagne, bas relief, Belgian Congo, Colonial expositions, colonialism, Colonies, Dahomey, Exhibition buildings, Exposition Coloniale de Marseille (1922), Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931), Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925 :Paris), Exposition Universelle (1900 : Paris), FIU Professor Maria Antonieta Garcia, France's overseas empire, Francophiles, French colonies, gender, human zoos, indigenous peoples, interracial couples, Jaussely, Madagascar, modernism, Musée Permanent des Colonies, native peoples, North Africa, nudes, Palais de la Porte Doree, pavilions, Petit Journal, postcards, posters, primitivism, sculpture, Senegal, Strange Couple (painting : 1934)
The Harlem Renaissance Comes to The Wolfsonian
• February 22, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, African American History, Artists, bindings, Civil Rights Movement, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, dance, decorative arts, displays, donations, erotic art, ethnohistory, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, Great Britain, Great Depression, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal era, pochoirs, portfolios, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Aaron Douglas, African American art, African American artists, African American performers, African American poets, Alain LeRoy Locke, America & Movies: The Black Image in Hollywood and History, Body and Soul (film: 1925), Charles Cullen, colonialism, Countee Cullen, Daniel Morris, Elanor Colburn, Folies Bergere, Harlem Renaissance, Harmon Foundation, Historical Design, James Weldon Johnson, Jazz Age, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Le Tumulte Noir, Mabel Dwight, madonna, Miguel Covarrubias, modernism, mothers and children, NAACP, naturalism, Negro Uplift, Oscar Micheaux, Paul Colin, Paul Robeson, poetry, primitivism, the Charleston (dance), The Crisis, The Emperor Jones (film: 1933), The New Negro: An Interpretation, Winold Reiss, Zora Neale Hurston
Through a Glass Darkly: Colonial Views of Africa
• July 26, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, children's books, Children's propaganda books, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, cruise ships, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Ethiopia, exhibitions, Fascism, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, ocean liners, passenger ships, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Zulus
Tags: 1910, 1935, 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques (Paris), Addis Abeba (Ethiopia), Adua (Ethiopia), Africa, Africans, Africans in art, Akbaba (Turkish periodical), Arthur Dupagne, Belgian Congo, Benito Mussolini, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Botswana, Brussels, Burkina Faso, calendars, Cameroon, Carl Weller, Children's propaganda books, collecting cards, Colonial expositions, Colonial tourism, colonialism, Colonies, Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Deutsche Afrika-Linien, Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie, diaries, displays, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Exhibition buildings, games, Ghana, Guinea, Huts, Italian Empire, Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-1896), Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, journals, Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy), La Barre à Mine (Mining Bar), Lamy, Laurence Miller, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mandela Washington fellows, menus, Namibia, Nazis, Niger, Nigeria, ocean liners, pavilions, photograph albums, photographs, postcards, propaganda, Rwanda, S.S. Leopoldville, Samoliland, Scrapbooks, sculpture, Sketchbooks, South Africa, Steve Heller, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania, Union Castle Line, Woermann-Linie, Zambia, Zanxibar, Zulus
FAULT LINES THROUGH TIME
• October 3, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in Balochistan, Earthquakes, Frederic A. Sharf, India, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Pakistan, Panama Canal, Quetta
Tags: Baluchistan, British Army, colonialism, Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique, earthquakes, India, Mexico, natural disasters, Pakistan, Panama, Panama Canal, Quetta
Indigenous Peoples of the Wolfsonian, Unite and Take Notice
• October 28, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, architects, architecture, Art Deco, book art, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, cruise ships, Dennis Wiedman, displays, donations, Ethiopia, ethnohistorical methods, ethnohistory, exhibitions, Far East, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frost Museum, gender, George B. Post (firm), gifts, globalism, Historical Methods, History Department, India, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Midways, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Modesto Maidique campus, museums, ocean liners, Orientalism, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Photograph albums, photography, political art, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Africa, Colonial expositions, colonialism, Colonies, David Rifkind, East Africa, Empire, Ethiopia, ethnocentrism, France's overseas empire, French Indochina, games, human zoos, India, indigenous peoples, Indo-Chine, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Native Americans, North Africa, Turkey
BIG GAME HUNTING AND “WILD ANIMAL” SPECTACLES IN THE WOLFSONIAN MUSEUM COLLECTION
• July 31, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Abbott and Costello, Africa Screams (film: 1949), Animals Are Like That (book: 1939), big game hunting, black maned lion, Botswana, Bring 'em Back Alive (book: 1930), Bring 'Em Back Alive (film: 1932), Cecil the lion, Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago: 1933-1934), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, colonialism, dentists, Entertainment, Fang and Claw (book: 1935), Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Buck (1884-1950), Frank Buck's Jungle Camp, game preserves, George Lipscombe, International exhibitions, Jacare (film: 1942), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Joseph Marro, Jungle Camp, Jungle Cavalcade (film: 1941), King Juan Carlos of Spain, Kubwa Simba (children's book: 1941), Masai warriors, Midways, National Parks, New York World's Fair (1939-1940), On Jungle Trails (book: 1936), pith helmets, Poachers, poaching, posters, safaris, Tiger Fangs (film: 1943), trophy hunting, Walter Palmer, wild animal collectors, Wild Cargo (book: 1932), Wild Cargo (film: 1934), World's Fairs, WPA New Reading Materials Program, Zimbabwe, zoos
LET’S GO DUTCH: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE DE VEEZE COLLECTION AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• October 7, 2013 • 6 CommentsPosted in Artists, bindings, colonialism, donations, Dutch Art Nouveau, exhibitions, Far East, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, museums, Nieuwe Kunst, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: Acculturation, Art Nouveau, Art Nouveau funiture and furnishings, assimilation, “going native”, Batik, book bindings, C. A. Lion Cachet (1864-1945), calendars, Chris Lebeau (1878-1945), Colonial administrators, colonialism, Colonies, De Stille Kracht, de Veeze Collection, Decorative arts, Director Walter van der Kamp, Dr. Marjan Groot, Dutch artists, Dutch Colonial Society, Dutch colonies, Dutch designers, Dutch East Indies, Gerrit Willem Disselhof (1866-1924), Gustaaf Frederik van de Wall Perné (1877-1911), Herman Teirlinck (1879-1967), hinges, Indonesia, Jan Theodoor Toorop (1858-1928), Jan Toroop (1858-1928), Java, L. W. R. Wenckebach (1860-1937), Louis Couperus (1863-1923), Max van Alphen, Miscegenation, NEA (National Endowment for the Arts), Nieuwe Kunst, Opium, Orientalism, PALMM (Publication of Archival Library & Museum Materials), Publishing House ephemera, The Hidden Force, The Netherlands, Theodoor Willem Nieuwenhuis (1866-1951), TV mini-series, Women designers
INSTILLING PRIDE FOR FRANCE’S COLONY IN MADAGASCAR: A RECENT ADDITION TO THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• August 20, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, accessioning, acquisitions, architecture, Artists, book art, cataloging, children's books, Children's propaganda books, colonial propaganda, colonialism, donations, France, gardens, gifts, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, pochoirs, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, theatre, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: “civilizing missions”, Beaux-Arts architecture, colonialism, color pochoir prints, Dreamworks' Madagascar (film), Exoticism, Florida International University graduates, French colonies, indigenous peoples, Joseph Galliéni (1849-1916), lemurs, M. L. Lamy, Madagascar, Michel Potop, Pierre Portelette (1890-1971), pochoirs, progress, Second French Empire
SOME RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY GIFTED BY MITCHELL WOLFSON, JR.
• June 21, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, American architects, American left artists, architects, architecture, book art, Children's propaganda books, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, cruise ships, decorative arts, displays, donations, exhibitions, Fascism, FIU, Florida International University, France, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, international expositions, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Occupied France, ocean liners, Orientalism, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Peter Behrens (1868-1940), political art, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Uncategorized, Unrealized architecture, 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, WWI
Tags: Arthur L. Weeks (architect), bears, catalogs, colonialism, Detroit International Bridge, Don Quixote, Elizabeth Bishop, furniture design, Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938), Gallic roosters, George G. Sharp (naval architect), German artists, Hercules, Heywood-Wakefield Company, imperial eagles, International exhibitions, Kriegszeit, Manhattan Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair, Mississippi River Power Company, nationalism, New York Antiquarian Book Fair, Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance, Panama Canal, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco 1915), Park Avenue Armory, Patriotism, Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), poets, Republic of Turkey, sea lions, The Communist Manifesto in pictures, Trade shows, Vichy France, Wolfsonian Museum, wolves, World's Fairs
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