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
L’ ARMISTICE: MORE THAN A DAY OFF FROM WORK
• November 11, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in Armistice Day, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, veterans, Veterans Day, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: 1918, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Arc de Triomphe, Armistice Day, Austro-Hungarian Emperor Francis Joseph I (1830-1916), Austro-Hungarian Empire, Censorship, Compiegne (France), Court martials, Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), Francis Xavier Luca, French President Francois Hollande, Great Depression, Hall of Mirrors (Versailles), Irving Marantz, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Kirk Douglas (actor: 1916-), Library Assistant Michel Potop, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Military executions, Museums, November 11, Paths of Glory (film : 1957), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, President Woodrow Wilson, R.M.S. Lusitania, Railway cars, Remembrance Day, Shell-shock, Soldiers, Stanley Kubrick (director : 1928-1999), Surrenders, the Great War (1914-1918), Treaty of Versailles, Trench warfare, Uniforms, Versailles, Veteran's Day, veterans, War casualties, War memorials
ART, WAR, AND REGENERATION: TOBY’S ROOM AND THE WOLFSONIAN BOOK CLUB
• January 8, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in Artists, avant-garde aesthetics, Futurism, Great Britain, leftist artists, propaganda, veterans, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: Art and Medicine, Art and propaganda, Art and war, C. R. W. (Christopher Richard Wynne) Nevinson (1889-1946), Censorship, Facial injury records, Futurism, George Grosz (1893-1959), Henry Tonks (1862-1937), Home front, landscapes, Lydia Lopez, No Man's Land, Pat Barker, Paul Nash (1889-1946), Queen's Hospital in Sidcup, Slade School of Fine Art (University College of London), Soldiers, surgeons, Thoby’s Room (1922), Toby’s Room (a review), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Vorticism, war artists, Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (1891-1969), Wolfsonian Book Club, women authors, World War (1914-1918), WWI
DOMESTICATING THE WAR: SOME NEW WOLFSONIAN ACQUISITIONS FROM WWI
• April 7, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, African American History, American war propaganda, Artists, avant-garde aesthetics, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Ethiopia, Fascism, Futurism, graphic designers, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, totalitarian, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI, youth movements
Tags: 370th Infantry, American Expeditionary Forces, American flag, Balilla Youth Movement, Colored troops, commercial advertising, commercial art, Cream of Wheat, Domestic life, Domesticity, Duilio Cambellotti (1876-1960), Fascism, Flags, Gender roles, General Pershing, Italian flag, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Joseph-Félix Bouchor (1853-1937), Military parades, Pairs, Patriotism, Red Cross nurses, Red white and blue, S. J. Woolf, Soldiers, Stars and stripes