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
CARTOONS FOR THE CAUSE: COMMUNIST CARTOONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• December 4, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Aesop Said So, blue collar workers, British Arts & Crafts Movement, Capitalists, caricatures, cartoons, Class struggle, Clive Weed, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Comrade Gulliver, CPUSA, George Grosz (1893-1959), Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), illustrators, John Pierpoint Morgan (1837-1913), Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919), Karl Marx (1818-1883), Karl Marx’ ‘Capital’ in Pictures, Linocuts, lithographs, Lucienne Bloch (1909-1999), National Socialism, Nazis, Robert Miner, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Socialism, Socialists, Soviet Union, Spartakus uprising (1919), Stock Market Crash (October 1929), The Mirrors of Wall Street, Tim Benson, Top hats, totalitarianism, Walter Crane (1845-1915), white collar workers, William Gropper (1897-1977), WWI, WWII
ART, WAR, AND REGENERATION: TOBY’S ROOM AND THE WOLFSONIAN BOOK CLUB
• January 8, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in Artists, avant-garde aesthetics, Futurism, Great Britain, leftist artists, propaganda, veterans, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: Art and Medicine, Art and propaganda, Art and war, C. R. W. (Christopher Richard Wynne) Nevinson (1889-1946), Censorship, Facial injury records, Futurism, George Grosz (1893-1959), Henry Tonks (1862-1937), Home front, landscapes, Lydia Lopez, No Man's Land, Pat Barker, Paul Nash (1889-1946), Queen's Hospital in Sidcup, Slade School of Fine Art (University College of London), Soldiers, surgeons, Thoby’s Room (1922), Toby’s Room (a review), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Vorticism, war artists, Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (1891-1969), Wolfsonian Book Club, women authors, World War (1914-1918), WWI