“Sam-I-Am”: The Passing of Cartoonist Sam Gross
• May 19, 2023 • 1 CommentPosted in Artists, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, museums, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian library exhibits
Tags: "The Scream", accountants, animals, Cartoonists, cartoons, Charlie Chaplin, City College, Cosmopolitan (magazine), CPAs, death and taxes, Francis Xavier Luca, Grim Reaper, immigrants, library installations, National Lampoon (magazine), neo-Nazis, Sam Gross, Satire, Swastikas, The Bronx (New York), The Comics Journal, The Immigrant (silent film), The New Yorker (magazine), The Realist (magazine), Tyrants and Terrorists: Satirists Bite Back (Wolfsonian Library installation), wind-up dolls
Some Things Gross: Scatological Humor Aimed at Hitler and his Henchmen
• March 4, 2023 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, 1940s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, antisemitism, curators, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazism, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
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The Streets and Faces of Chas Laborde (1886–1941)
• February 28, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, Artists, book art, Broadway, collectors, First World War (1914-1918), France, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Depression, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Occupied France, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
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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)
Caricaturist Conrado W. Massaguer and His Contemporaries
• August 20, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, curator, donations, exhibitions, Fascism, Folklorists, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, photography, political art, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian staff, World War II, WWII
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Weaponized Wit: WWI Lampoons of Kaiser Wilhelm
• September 4, 2018 • 1 CommentPosted in 1915, American war propaganda, children's books, Children's propaganda books, displays, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, First World War (1914-1918), FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Pamela K. Harer, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
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CHARLIE, OR NOT CHARLIE: A WOLFSONIAN REFLECTION ON ATHEISM, RELIGIOUS SATIRE, AND TOLERANCE IN THE WAKE OF THE CHARLIE HEBDO MASSACRE
• January 17, 2015 • 3 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Artists, Communism, Communists, conflict and resolution, donations, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Jews, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: Adam and Eve, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deineka (1899-1969), anticlericalism, atheism, Atheist at the Lathe, babushkas, Bezbozhnik u stanka, blasphemy, Bombs, caricatures, cartoons, Cathedral of Christ the Savior (Moscow), Censorship, Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), Charlie Brown, Charlie Hebdo, Christianity, controversy, demonstrations, Dmitrii Stakheivich Moor (1883-1946), editorial decisions, editors, Father Georgy Gapon (1870-1906), Fête de la Raison, feminism, foxes, François Cavanna, François Hollande, François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), France, freedom from religion, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, French President Jacques Chirac, French Revolution, Genesis, Georges Bernier, God, Hara-Kiri (monthly magazine), hate speech, irreverence, Islam, Jesus Christ, Judaism, lampoons, M. Kostelovskaia, Mohammed, Muslim extremists, Nicolas Sarkozy, Peanuts, performance art, Prophet Mohammed, protests, provocation, Pussy Riot, religion, religious fundamentalism, religious tolerance, Republican values, Russia, Russian Orthodox priests, Satire, secular society, self-censorship, separation of church and state, Sharia law, Soviet Union, Stéphane Charbonnier, Terrorism, terrorists, the Age of Enlightenment, the Bible, turbans, veils, violence, Vladimir Putin, Voltaire
BEFORE THE WORLD WENT TO WAR: GLIMPSES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY COLLECTION
• August 29, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in book art, collectors, displays, donations, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Italian design, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Panama Canal, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vienna, Vienna Secession, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
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THE DAUNTLESS DANE: THE ANTI-NAZI ART OF HARALD RUDYARD ENGMAN
• March 18, 2014 • 5 CommentsPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Harald Engman, Nazism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler caricatures, anti-fascist movement, anti-Nazi movement, Censorship, Chiang Kai Shek (1887–1975), collaborators, Communists, concentration camps, Copenhagen (Denmark), Danish artists, Denmark, Der Forbudte Maler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), German occupied territories, German-occupied Denmark, Germany, Gestapo, Harald Rudyard Engman (1903-1968), Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Hermann Goring, heroes, Human Pyramid, Jews, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), lampoons, Menneske Pyramide (Human Pyramid) oil painting, Militarism, Nazis, Neutral countries, Neutrality, Pedophile, PODfest, Policemen, Power of Design (Complaints), Protectorates, Quislings, Resistance, Satire, Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), War in art
HISTORY REPEATS: COMMUNIST AND ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• March 20, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Communists, donations, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Soviet Union, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
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