Divergent Perspectives of Emperor Ménélik II: From Satirical to Honorable Tributes
• April 16, 2024 • 1 CommentPosted in accessioning, acquisitions, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Ethiopia, graphic arts, Italy, museums, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library
Tags: Battle of Adwa (1896), caricatures, Charles Léandre, chocolate promotional materials, Chocolaterie D’Aiguebelle, collecting cards, East Africa, emperors, Ethiopia, First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-1896), FIU students, Italian Prime Minister Francesco Crispi, Le Rire (magazine), Matthieu Castillo, Ménélik II (Emperor of Ethiopia), Négus, stereotypes, Treaty of Addis Ababa (1896), Wolfsonian interns
Gender, Race & Ethnicity in Turkish Caricature
• July 1, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, architecture, collectors, colonialism, donations, Ethiopia, Fascism, fashion, fashion for women, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, Italy, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, propaganda, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda
Tags: Akbaba (magazine), Arabs, Arkitekt (periodical), Armenian massacres, burqas, caricature, cheesecake, clothing and dress, Dr. Onursal Erol, Ethiopians, ethnic cleansing, ethnicity, expulsion, Fascism, fashion, gender issues, globes, indigenous peoples, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jews, Karikatur (magazine), legs, magazine cover art, Mimar (periodical), modernization, Mustafa Kemel Ataturk (?-1938), nationalism, Nazism, Ottoman Empire, pogroms, race, racial stereotypes, Republic of Turkey, secularization, stereotypes, sunbathing, tanks (military science), tanning, The Republic (Turkish newspaper), Turkification, war, Wolfsonian fellows, women's fashion, Women's rights
From Magazines to Zines
• February 7, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, African American History, Bernarr Macfadden, bindings, book art, CCC, children's books, circuses, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, displays, donations, fashion, fashion for women, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Lloyd Wright, fur, gender, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Pamela K. Harer, Physical culture, postcards, programs, racism, rare books and special collections library, Robert J. Young, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, typography, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, youth movements, Zines
Tags: A-D (magazine), AIZ (magazine), Amazing Stories (pulp magazine), animal exploitation, Anti-Asian prejudice, beauty culture, Black Lives Matter movement, Black Venus, body image, bolt bindings, book bindings, Braddock, branding, carbon paper, cartoons, CCC camp zines, CCC camps, Circuses, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, David Almeida, Dust Bowl, Elizabeth Zoe Welch, Environmental movement, Ethiopia, Expo '74 (Spokane), fanzines, foils, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Fourth of July, Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Buck, fur, gay/lesbian literature, Gender roles, Gina Wouters, Hialeah Gardens, iPrep, Italian futurists, jokes, José Martí MAST, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, La Revue Ford (magazine), Law Enforcement Senior High, LGBTQ, Louis C. Tiffany & Co., Magazines, Miami Beach High, Miami Norland, Miami-Dade County schoolteachers, mimeograph machines, news, objectification of women, Patriotism, Periodicals, photocopiers, Photomontage, Physical Culture (magazine), plastic bindings, poetry, prejudice, pulp magazines, pulp paperbacks, Ring (magazine), science fiction, sexual orientation, Sheet music covers, South Miami, Southwest Miami, stereotypes, tailored suits, Terra, textiles, the "Me Too" movement, the Blues, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, transparencies, Uncle Sam, Vanity Fair (magazine), Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Wells Fargo, Wendingen (magazine), womanizing, Zines
Recent Florida International University Class Visits to The Wolfsonian Library
• February 10, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, African American History, American left artists, American war propaganda, Artists, book art, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, donations, Fascism, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Lin Shi Khan, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), memorabilia, museums, Nazi propaganda, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, Popular Front, posters, prohibition, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, racism, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Scottsboro Trial, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, trains, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II
Tags: 1930s, Adolf Hitler, African-Americans, anti-lynching campaigns, Autobahn, Blues, Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) International Labor Defense (ILD), Great Depression, Harlem Renaissance, highways, infrastructure construction, Jazz, lynchings, memory, New Deal, New Negro, race, Race trials, racism, railways, roads, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), stereotypes, U.S. One
From the United States, to the Philippines, to Tokyo, to Cuba: BAA & NEH Scholars Visit The Wolfsonian–FIU
• June 18, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, African American History, Alabama, American left artists, architecture, Artists, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, curator, displays, exhibitions, Far East, FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, graphic arts, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, leftist artists, library donors, museums, Philippine American War, Philippine-American War (1899-1902), Philippines, Photograph albums, racism, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: African-Americans, Al Jolson, Anti-communism, Art Deco, Bavarian American Academy, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, block print books, death penalty, Dr. Amy Bliss Marshall, Dr. Hitomi Yoshio, Dr. Steven Heine, electric chair, Felix Lewis, Francis Xavier Luca, Hap Hadley, Japan, Josephine Baker, Koizumi Kishio (1893-1945), Lidu Yi, lino-cut books, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Nicolae Harsanyi, Philippines, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (exhibition), Quit Cryin' the Blues, racism, Remembering Tokyo (exhibit), Rochelle Pienn, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), stereotypes, summer institutes, summer programs, Tokyo: High City and Low City, United States
PRESENTATIONS BY FOUR FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENTS
• April 28, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in Dennis Wiedman, ethnohistorical methods, ethnohistory, Fascism, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, propaganda arts, racism
Tags: Advertisements, African-Americans, Catholic Action, Ethiopia, Italian colonies, Libya, North Africa, stereotypes, Sweepers, Vacuums
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