RAZZLE DAZZLE, ART BASEL: A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXHIBIT ON THE “GREAT WAR” AND THE DECORATION OF THE MUSEUM’S FAÇADE
• November 29, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in airplanes, American war propaganda, Armistice Day, children's books, Children's propaganda books, curators, displays, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, First World War (1914-1918), FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, Pamela K. Harer, passenger ships, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Veterans Day, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
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OPPOSITE VIEWS OF WORLD WAR II: WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY HOSTS FIU STUDENTS STUDYING GERMAN AND U.S. PROPAGANDA
• February 28, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, African American History, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Arthur Szyk, Artists, Aryans, Children's propaganda books, donations, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, History Department, Holocaust, library donors, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, racism, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
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