THE POWER OF DESIGN: CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMPLAINTS AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU
• March 27, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Eric Gill, FDR, Federal One, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Great Depression, Harald Engman, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: A. Birnbaum, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Adolf Hitler caricatures, American eagle, and William Gropper (1897-1977), Anti-Capitalist propaganda, anti-taxation propaganda, Arthur Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) caricatures, British Arts & Crafts Movement, Bummer (Wolfsonian exhibition), Cannibals, Cannon-fodder, Cathy Leff, Complaint booths, Complaint choir, Complaints! An Inalienable Right (poster exhibition), dehumanization, Denis Tegetmeier (1896-1987), Der Kunstliche Mensch, Design historians, Editorial cartoons, Eric Gill (1882-1940), Federal Arts Projects, Federal One, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Georg Grosz (1893-1959), Great Depression, Guest curators, guest speakers, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Icebergs, Jesus Christ, Knight Foundation, Miami Heral Media Company, Nazis, New Deal America, Paradox of Plenty, Political cartoons, Political machines, Power of Design (Complaints), Power of Design festival, prostitution, Prussian militarism, R. D. Fitzpatrick, Religious hypocrisy, Richard Miltner, robots, Social satire, Steven Heller, Stock Market Crash (October 1929), Todd Oldham, Uncle Sam, Unemployment, Willi Geisler (1848-1928), WLRN (Public radio), Work and Leisure, Work Projects Administration (WPA), Wounded war veterans
ART BASEL AND OCEAN LINER AFICIONADO TOURS OF THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY AND A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE
• December 13, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in book art, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communism, Communists, Constructivism, cruise ships, displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, Dutch Art Nouveau, Ethiopia, Far East, Fascism, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Hamburg-American Line, international expositions, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, John Heartfield (1891-1968), Laurence Miller Collection, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, Nieuwe Kunst, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Photograph albums, photography, pochoirs, political art, postcards, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, VIP vistors, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World's fairs, WWI
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