Reflections on the Passing of Fidel Castro and the U.S.-Cuba Relationship by Wolfsonian–FIU Chief Librarian Francis Luca
• December 1, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, bars, Communism, Cuba, dance, FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, hotels, library donors, museums, persuasive arts, photography, promotional materials, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1950s, 25th of July Movement, Affair in Havana (film : 1957), Afro-Cuban jazz, American celebrities, American tourists in Cuba, Bar La Florida (Havana), Bay of Pigs invasion, Cabarets, Casino de Capri, Casinos, cha cha cha, Chano Pozo, Che! (film : 1969), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Coca-cola, Cocktail Time in Cuba, Conrado W. Massaguer, Cuba, Cuba (film : 1979), Cuban exiles, Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuban musicians, Cuban Rebel Girls (film : 1959), dictators, Dizzy Gillespie, Ed Sullivan, Errol Flynn, Escape from Hell Island (film : 1964), Ferries, Fidel Castro, Francis Xavier Luca, Fulgencio Batista, Gran Casino Nacional de Habana, Granma, Guys and Dolls (film : 1955), Habana Libre (hotel), Havana (Cuba), Havana Hilton, Havana Widows (film : 1933), honeymooners, Jose Marti, Key West (Florida), La Bodeguita del Medio (restaurant : Havana), Liberace, mambo, Moncada barracks (Santiago de Cuba), Nightclubs, Pier Five Havana (film : 1959), President Obama, Prohibition, promised gifts, Raul Castro, Rita Hayworth, roulette, rum, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), showgirls, Sloppy Joe's Bar (Havana), strippers, striptease, Tampa (Florida), tourists, Tropicana (Nightclub), United States, Vicki Gold Levi, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, We Shall Return (film : 1963), Wolfsonian Chief Librarian, Woolworths department store, Ybor City (Florida)
A Wolfsonian Perspective on Two U.S. Presidential Visits to Cuba
• March 20, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, airplanes, collectors, Communism, Cuba, curators, donations, exhibitions, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, interns, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Maine (Battleship, Pan Am, rare books and special collections library, Spanish-American War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Augusto Sandino, baseball, Cuba, Cuba: From Gunboat Diplomacy to Good Neighbor Policy, Cuban war of Independence, dictators, El Morro Castle (Havana harbor), Gerardo Machado (1871-1939), Inter-American Conference (6th: 1928: Havana), Platt Amendment, President Barack Obama, President Calvin Coolidge, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure
AIRSHIPS, SEAPLANES, AND FLYING MACHINES AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• October 18, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, airplanes, displays, documentaries, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, Fascism, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, Italian design, Italy, library donors, memorabilia, Photograph albums, photography, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, transatlantic voyages, Vintage postcards, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: 1920s, air force, air shows, Airplane industry, airplanes, airships, Aristotle Ares, Art directors, art handlers, aviation, Aviators, Balloons and ballooning, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Besnier, biplanes, Carlos Alejandro, Clément Ader (1841-1925), Crowds, curators, Cyrano de Bergerac, dictators, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Edmond Rostand, Exhibition designers, fascist dictators, flight, Flying machines, France, Graf Zeppelin (airship), Helicopters, Henri Farman (1874-1958), Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946), Hindenburg (airship), Hindenburg disaster, Hot-air balloons, Hydrogen gas balloons, Icarus, Industrie Aeronautique, Italo Balbo (1896-1940), Italy, James Taylor, Jean-Baptiste Dante de la Perouse, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lisa Li, Louis Blériot (1872-1936), Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, Luftwaffe, LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, LZ 129 Hindenburg, LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II (airship), March on Rome (October 1922), Marquis of Bacqueville, Michel Potop, Montgolfier brothers, Mylinh Nguyen, parachutes, Peter Clericuzio, Richard Miltner, Savoia Marchetti seaplanes, seaplanes, Silvia Barisione, Statue of Liberty, Steve Forero-Paz, Tato (1896-1974), transatlantic flights, v. Römer, Voison biplane, Zeppelin at Friedrichshafen (Germany), zeppelins
A DOUBLE DOSE OF EVIL: GUEST LECTURERS KEN JOHNSON, STEVE HELLER, AND POISONOUS PROPAGANDA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
• March 26, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, American war propaganda, anti-Semitism, anti-tobacco campaign, antisemitism, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, Communism, Communists, donations, exhibitions, FIU, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Green Library, Holocaust, Iron fists, Jews, library donors, museums, Nazi propaganda, Oren Stier, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, racism, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, stickers, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Anti-Jewish propaganda, Antisemitism, “Branding the Nazis” (lecture), “Fips” pseudonym for cartoonist Philipp Rupprecht ((1900-1975), “Quiet Violence: The Deep Structure of Violence in the Graphic Arts” (lecture), “Race and Visual Culture Under National Socialism” (Exhibit at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum (FIU), Children's propaganda books, Demonization, Der Stürmer (Periodical), Design educators, designers, dictators, Don’t Trust a Fox on a Green Heath or a Jew By His Oath (Nazi children’s book), Eric Feiler, evil, Final Solution, FIU Associate Professor Oren Stier, FIU Jewish Studies Program, Frank Luca, Frost Museum Teaching Gallery, graphic designers, Guest lecturers, Heinrich Hoffmann (1885-1957), Holocaust, Identity and differentiation, Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State / by Steve Heller (2008), Julius Streicher (1885-1946), Juvenile literature, Louise Fili, Ludwig Sütterlin (1865-1917), Material and Visual Culture of the Holocaust, National Socialism, Nazi visual culture, Nazis, Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, podcasts, Professor Kenneth Johnson, Race hatred, Race-baiting, Steve Heller, Swastikas, The Daily Heller (blog post), The Poison Mushroom (Nazi children’s book), The Swastika: Symbol Beyond Redemption? / by Steve Heller (2008), War Criminals
POLITICAL PERSUASION FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION ERA
• October 13, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Artists, Blue eagle, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, David Almeida, Digital Library Specialist, displays, exhibitions, Fascism, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FTP, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), It Can't Happen Here, leftist artists, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), NRA, persuasive arts, political art, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: 1932 Presidential election, 1936 Presidential election, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Antoni Muntadas, assassinations, Brain-Trusters, campaign songs, campaign spots, Communist Pary of the United States, Communists, CPUSA, crown of thorns, Democratic donkey, dictators, ephemera, Every Man A King, fascist dictators, Father Charles Coughlin, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, General Hugh Johnson, Gerald L. K. Smith, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Chavez, It Can't happen Here, Marshall Reese, My FIrst Days in the White House, National Recovery Administration (NRA), Norman Thomas, Political Advertisement VII: 1952-2008, Politics on Paper: Election Posters and Ephemera form The Wolfsonian-FIU Collection, presidential elections, public building, Public Works Projects, Radio Priest, redistribution of wealth, Republican elephant, Road construction, Share Our Wealth Societies, Sinclair Lewis, Socialists, the Kingfish, William Randolph Hearst
DICTATORS ON DISPLAY
• August 28, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, Communists, Fascism
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, branding, dictators, Iron Fists, Joseph Stalin, propaganda, Steve Heller, totalitarian regimes
