A Night for Celebrating Heroines
• October 1, 2022 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, acquisitions, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, displays, donations, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic designers, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, pochoirs, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian staff, women, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: "Revanchism", Alsace-Lorraine, Booklegger Library director, Carlton Maloney, Children's propaganda books, color chromolithographs, Comic books, coveralls, DC Comics, deluxe editions, Edouard-Garcia Benito, figurines, First World War, Francis Xavier Luca, Franco-Prussian War, French illustrators, goddesses, gothic cathedrals, Guy Arnoux, heroes, heroines, Into the Stacks (Wolfsonian public program), Joan of Arc, Legends, Life (magazine), Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Middle Ages, munitions factories, Musical scores, Nathaniel Sandler, Norman Rockwell, Notre-Dame de Reims, Nurses, nurses and nursing, Pochoir plates, pochoirs, portfolios, Prophet Isaiah, Red Cross nurses, Reims, Robert Burnand, Rosie the Riveter, Sandra Solis Hazim, Second World War, Sheet music covers, silhouettes, Sistine Chapel, stencilwork, tattoos, The Wolfsonian cafe and gift shop, Wikipedia, women's war work, Wonder Woman
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
Paris Liberated on This Day in History: A Wolfsonian Library Reflection
• August 25, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, book art, children's books, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Pamela K. Harer, portfolios, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II
Tags: Animals in art, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Children in art, Children's propaganda books, Eiffel Tower, Eugene Delacroix's "liberty Leading the People" (1830), French Resistance, liberation of Paris (1944), Martijn F. Lecoultre, Paris, parodies, Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), Pierre Laval (1883-1945), playing cards, portfolios, Tanks, World War (1939-1945), World War II
WOMEN AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: SOME ARTIFACTS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY COLLECTION
• October 3, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, American war propaganda, Children's propaganda books, displays, donations, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, passenger ships, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: "jumping jack" (paper puppets), "pin-up" art, AEF (American Expeditionary Force), African-American soldiers, American military uniforms, anti-interventionist propaganda, anti-war propaganda, Broadsides, castration anxiety, Celia Malone Kingsbury’s For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front, coach drivers, Doughboys, emasculation fears, femininity, feminists, French women, gender issues, Gender roles, La Tradotta, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), love, Lusitania (Steamship), magazine cover art, manliness, mothers and sons, mothers of soldiers, munitions factories, Musical scores, Myth and Machine: The First World War in Visual Culture (Wolfsonian exhibition), Navy recruitment, Neutrality, nurses and nursing, pacifism, porters, portfolios, postmen, President Woodrow Wilson, R.M.S. Lusitania, recruiting posters, Red Cross nurses, romance, Sailor suits, Service flags, Sheet music covers, shell factories, street sweepers, Sweethearts, The Delineator (magazine), the Great War (1914-1918), Thomas C. Ragan, trolley conductors, U-Boat attacks, Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949), War & Society: The First World War (FIU History class), War brides, war work, Wilson's "Too proud to fight" speech (May 1915), Woman's Suffrage Movement, women, women and children, women barbers, women's war work, World War (1914-1918)
VISITORS TO THE WOLFSONIAN DURING ART BASEL
• December 14, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, airplanes, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, automobile design, bindings, book art, cars, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, Constructivism, cruise ships, Cuba, displays, donations, El Lissitzky, Ethiopia, exhibitions, Frederic A. Sharf, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Lissitzky, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, Photograph albums, photography, political art, portfolios, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, streamlined cars, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Theodore Pietsch, Theodore W. Pietsch, trains, war propaganda, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 20th Century Limited (train), Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Advertisements, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Around the world cruises, Art Basel, Art Deco, Art deco book bindings, Art Nouveau, Austrian Secession, automobiles, Axis, Batik, book bindings, Bruno Munari (1907-1998), caricatures, Children's propaganda books, Contempo, De Stille Kracht, Depero Futurista, Display cards, Dlia Golosa, Dutch East Indies, Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954), El Lissitzky (1890-1941), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), Flying Clipper, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Frederic A. Sharf, Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946), indigenous peoples, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jeffrey Flemings, John Vassos (1898-1985), L'Inflation Sentimentale, Leonard A. Lauder, manufacturers' catalogs, Martijn F. Lecoultre, Nazis, ocean liners, Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Orion (Steamship), Pamela K. Harer, Peggy Loar, photograph albums, playing cards, pochoir prints, portfolios, postcards, Promotional materials, Richard P. Schick, Samples, Seguy, Sheet music covers, Steve Heller, Textile designs, Theodore (Ted) W. Pietsch III, Thomas C. Ragan, Ultimo, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), Wiener Werkstatte
PICTOGRAPHIC STATISTICS: OTTO NEURATH, GERD ARNTZ, AND THEIR INFLUENCE
• October 29, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in graphic arts, graphic designers, Virtual library displays, volunteers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Ashley Dugdale, David Almeida, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Gerd Arntz (1900-1988), graphic statistics, Isotypes, Miguel Regojo, Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Pictorial graphics, pictorial statistics, portfolios, Richard Hoberman, Soviet propaganda, Speaking signs, Statistically Speaking, statistics
RENEWED INTEREST IN THE “NEW ART”
• September 8, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in architects, architecture, Art Nouveau (architecture), FIU, FIU School of Architecture, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Hector Guimard (1867-1942)
Tags: 3D modeling, David Almeida, Digital library specialist, Esposizione internazionale d’arte decorativa moderna (1902: Turin, FIU School of Architecture, flowers, international expositions, Italy), library volunteers, Miami Design Preservation League, nature-inspired art and architecture, plant forms, portfolios, Professor Eric Goldemberg, repetitive patterns, Richard Hoberman, Victor Horta (1861-1947)
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