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)
Gender, Race & Ethnicity in Turkish Caricature
• July 1, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, architecture, collectors, colonialism, donations, Ethiopia, Fascism, fashion, fashion for women, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, Italy, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, propaganda, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda
Tags: Akbaba (magazine), Arabs, Arkitekt (periodical), Armenian massacres, burqas, caricature, cheesecake, clothing and dress, Dr. Onursal Erol, Ethiopians, ethnic cleansing, ethnicity, expulsion, Fascism, fashion, gender issues, globes, indigenous peoples, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jews, Karikatur (magazine), legs, magazine cover art, Mimar (periodical), modernization, Mustafa Kemel Ataturk (?-1938), nationalism, Nazism, Ottoman Empire, pogroms, race, racial stereotypes, Republic of Turkey, secularization, stereotypes, sunbathing, tanks (military science), tanning, The Republic (Turkish newspaper), Turkification, war, Wolfsonian fellows, women's fashion, Women's rights
Lynd Ward’s Graphic Novels of the Depression Decade
• January 23, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, book art, FIU, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, Great Depression, Honor's College, leftist artists, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal era, political art, skyscrapers, slums, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: Alois Kolb, anxiety, artists, Black Lives Matter, capitalist critiques, Death, demonstrations, expectant mothers, factories, Fascism, Faust, Frans Masereel, Georg A. Mathey, German Expressionism, God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts (1929), graphic novels, Great Depression, Hans Alexander Mueller, Harry F. Ward, homelessness, industrial buildings, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), lynchings, Madman's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts (1930), Militarism, National Academy of Graphic Arts (Leipzig), National Guard, Police, Prelude to a Million Years: A Book of Wood Engravings (1933), protests, relief lines, rollercoasters, sequential art storytelling, slave trade, slavery, smokestacks, social unrest, Socialists, Song Without Words: A Book of Engravings on Wood (1936), starvation, strikes, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1920), Upsurge / by Robert Gessner, Vertigo: A Novel in Woodcuts (1937), vigilantes, violence, Wild Pilgrimage: A Novel in Woodcuts (1932), wood engravers, wood engraving, Woodcuts, wordless novels
It Must Not Happen Here
• August 28, 2020 • 4 CommentsPosted in Uncategorized
Tags: Al Capone, American Fascists, American flag, assassinations, Black Lives Matter movement, book illustrators, COVID-19, dictatorships, fake news, Fascism, Father Charles Coughlin (1891-1979), Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Flags, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, General Hugh Johnson, Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), J. P. Morgan, lithographs, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), New Deal, Novels, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Satire, Sinclair Lewis, Upsurge / by Robert Gessner, William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
Tuned In: RadioFest at The Wolfsonian
• March 17, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, airplanes, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, book art, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, displays, donations, FDR, Florida International University, Four Freedoms speech (1941), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Britain, Great Depression, Italy, library donors, Mediterranean Sea, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Occupied France, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Advertisements, “Back of the Mike” (film short 1938), Benito Mussolini, Brochures, caricatures, cartoons, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fascism, Father Charles Coughlin, Federal Music Project (FMP), fireside chats, Four Freedoms speech, Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harvey Mattel, Herbert Hoover, Joseph Goebbels, microphones, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Moonlighter Makerspace, Nazism, New Deal, People’s Receivers, postcards, posters, propaganda, Public radio, Radio, Radio London, Radio tower transmitters, RadioFest, radios, Red Scare, Second World War, Sound recordings, The New Tropic, VoxPop, Winston Churchill, WLRN, Wolfson Archives, Works Progress Administration (WPA), World War (1839-1945), WWII
Political Isms: A New Wolfsonian Library Installation Opens To the Public
• August 18, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Fascism, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: Charles Edward Coughlin (1891-1979), Communism, Demagogues, Fascism, Father Coughlin, Francis Townsend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gerald L. K. Smith, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), isms, National Union for Social Justice, Nazism, presidential elections, Share the Wealth movement, Socialism, the "radio priest", William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, OR, A STUDENT RECEPTION WITH WOLFSONIAN-FIU RARE BOOK LIBRARIANS
• April 8, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Ben Stiller, New York Museum of Natural History, Night at the Museum
Tags: Antonio Pettini, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Boxer Rebellion, C. A. Lion Cachet, China, Dr. Annette Fromm, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Fannie Caldwell, Fascism, FIU Museum Studies, Germany, Indonesia, Jacob Maris, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Kawi, Milan Trenc, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sergeant Edwin Taylor, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, South African War (1899-1902), Wakana Utigawa, Wolfsonian-FIU library
SOME MEDITERRANEAN EXOTICS AND SHIPS AS WAR REFUGEES: NEW ARRIVALS AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• December 16, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, ocean liners, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Argentina (Ship), Barcelona, Brasil (Ship), Cabo de Buena Esperanza (Ship), Cabo de Hornos (Ship), Canadian Pacific, collaborators, D.C.), deck plans, Drottingholm (Ship), emigrants, Empress of Australia (Ship), Empress of France (Ship), Fascism, Francisco Franco (1892-1975), George Sharp, Gibbs & Cox, Greta Garbo (1905-1990), Gustavo Pulitzer Finali (1887-1967), Gydnia America Line, Holocaust Museum (Washington, Homeland (Ship), Immigration, Italian emigrants, Jews, La Compania Transatlantica, Neptunia, Neutrals, Oceania, Prisoner exchanges, Red Cross, Refugees, Reina Victoria Eugenia (Ship), Sobieski, South America, Spain, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), steamships, submarines, Troopships, Virginian (Ship), war refugees, Ybarra Line
VISIT TO THE WOLFSONIAN BY DR. CINTA RAMBLADO MINERO OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK
• February 18, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Aurora Morcillo, Communism, Communists, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, rare books and special collections library, Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: Dr. Cinta Ramblado Minero, Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas Ofensivas Nacional Sindicalista (J.O.N.S.), Fascism, Florida International University guest speakers, Francisco Franco (1892-1975), Gender studies, Hurricanes, Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez (1895-1989). La Pasionaria, José Manuel Morcillo, Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection, Spain, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Spanish language studies, Women’s studies
CHILD SOLDIERS, CHEMICAL WEAPONS, AND WAR IN THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU COLLECTION
• May 9, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, colonial propaganda, colonialism, donations, Fascism, Italy, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., persuasive arts, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Spanish Civil War, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Abd-El-Krim, Abd-El-Krim (1882/3-1963), Aurelio Bertiglia, Battle of Annual (Morocco), Berbers, Chemical weapons, Child's Play, Children in war imagery, civilian casualties, crimes against humanity, Dámaso Berenguer, Delegación Nacional de Prensa y Propaganda de F.E.R. y de las J.O.N.S, East Africans, Ethiopia, Fabrica Nacional de Productos Quimicos plant (La Marañosa), Fascism, Flecha (periodical), Geneva convention, Geneva Protocol, guerrilla leaders, Hugo Stolzenberg, Italo-Ethiopian war, Italy, League of Nations, martyrs, Morocco, mustard gas, North Africans, Padre Reginaldo Guiliani (1887-1936), postcards, propaganda, rare periodicals, Rif rebellion, Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935-1937), Spain, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Steve Heller, Syria, Treaty of Versailles
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