Skullduggery: Happy Howl-O-Ween from The Wolf
• October 16, 2023 • 1 CommentPosted in American war propaganda, Artists, book art, curators, displays, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: Barron Gift Collier (1873-1939), book illustrators, caricaturists, Cartoonists, cartoons, dance macabre, dance with death, Death, demons, Devil, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Xavier Luca, German expressionist films, gothic poetry and stories, Halloween, Harry Clarke, horror films, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Militarism, propagandists, silent film classics, Skeletons, skulls, Tales of Mystery and Imagination / by Edgar Allan Poe, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1920), Wolfsonian Museum, World War (1914-1918)
Gags, Censorship, and Gagging
• March 23, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Cuba, curators, exhibitions, Fascism, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal era, Pamela K. Harer, persuasive arts, photography, photomontage, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, Russia, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian Library, totalitarian, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: "Degenerate" art, algorithms, American League Against War and Fascism, Arthur Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) caricatures, Audrey Feldman, August Mecklem Estate, Barron Gift Collier (1873-1939), Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), book banning, book burning, caricatures, cartoons, Censorship, Charles Coughlin, Collier's (magazine), Communism, Conrado Walter Massaguer, conspiracy theories, crown of thorns, dictators, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Entartete "Kunst" Ausstellung, Fascism, First Amendment, Francis Xavier Luca, freedom of speech, gagging, gags, Gerardo Machado (1871-1939), German Crown Prince, globes, Harald Engman, hate speech, Huey P. Long, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Instagram, J. P. Morgan, Jazz music, John Heartfield (1891-1968), Jordan Klepper, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Leonard A. Lauder, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Lusitania (Steamship), Maps, Michael Rosenfeld, Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), Mundt-Nixon Bill, National Socialism, Nazi-occupied territories, Nazis, Neutrality, Pamela K. Harer, Paul Iribe (1883-1935), Photomontage, Plotting Power (Wolfsonian exhibitions), Sam Gross, skulls, Smith Act, Social (magazine), Soviet Union, spiders, The Evil Prince / by Hans Christian Andersen, The Saturday Evening Post (magazine), trolling, trolls, Tyrants and Terrorists: Satirists Bite Back (Wolfsonian Library installation), Ukraine famine, vampire bats, Vanity Fair (magazine), Vicki Gold Levi, William Gropper (1897-1977), William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
Historical Horrors for Halloween
• October 30, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Artists, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, donations, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hengeler (1863-1927), Barron Gift Collier (1873-1939), bats, bellboys, Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965), Communists, Death, demons, devils, Fascists, Frankenstein, gargoyles, ghouls, Grim Reaper, Halloween, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Jurgen Freese, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Light bulbs, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), monsters, Nazis, Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, ogres, Skeletons, skulls, The Belboy (film : 1960_, Vampires, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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