“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
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Adolf Hitler caricatures, amputee frogs, bathroom humor, caricatures, Cartoonists, cartoons, chamber pots, ephemera, Francis Xavier Luca, frog legs, Lacoste, National Lampoon (magazine), Nazis, New Yorker (magazine), plungers, postcards, Sam Gross, Satire, satirists, scatological humor, Swastikas, toilet bowls, Toilet paper, toilets, Tyrants and Terrorists: Satirists Bite Back (Wolfsonian Library installation)
New Deal Ephemera
• October 5, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Alabama, American left artists, Blue eagle, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civil Rights Movement, Civilian Conservation Corps, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, NYA, persuasive arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), stickers, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, visual thinking strategies, VTS, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: 1936, Advertisements, aGatherin', Blue eagle (thunderbird) campaign, Broadsides, bulletins, calendars, campaign stickers, capitalism, Chain gangs, Christopher DeNoon, civil rights, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Communists, Comrade Gulliver, Diane de Blois, Display cards, electric chairs, ephemera, Ephemera Society of America, fans, FDR, Federal Music Project (FMP), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gabriel Over the White House, Great Depression, Hurricane Irma, jobs, Junior Seminar, Kara Accettola, Leonard A. Lauder, Little Sages Books, lynchings, Lynton Gardiner, Martijn F. Lecoultre, Movie Makers (periodical), National Recovery Administration (NRA), National Youth Administration (NYA), Negro Songs of Protest (song book), New Deal, Pamphlets, pennants, Photomontage, portfolio plates, posters, Public Works Administration (PWA), racism, rare books, rare periodicals, Robert Dalton Harris, Rosie the Riveter, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Second World War, sharecropping, Sheet music covers, Socialists, song books, Sound recordings, Supreme Court rulings, Swastikas, Tamiami Trail, tanks (military science), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, voting patterns, Women war workers, work, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Unhappy Anniversary: A Wolfsonian Reflection on the Abandonment of the Czechs and the Appeasement of Hitler, Munich, 1938
• September 30, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, donations, France, gifts, Great Britain, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, war propaganda, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), appeasement, Arthur Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) caricatures, Édouard Daladier (1884-1970), Cartoonists, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Munich Pact (1938), Nazi Germany, Sudetenland, Swastikas, Treaties, Vaughn Shoemaker (1902-1991), War scares
A DOUBLE DOSE OF EVIL: GUEST LECTURERS KEN JOHNSON, STEVE HELLER, AND POISONOUS PROPAGANDA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
• March 26, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, American war propaganda, anti-Semitism, anti-tobacco campaign, antisemitism, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, Communism, Communists, donations, exhibitions, FIU, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Green Library, Holocaust, Iron fists, Jews, library donors, museums, Nazi propaganda, Oren Stier, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, racism, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, stickers, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Anti-Jewish propaganda, Antisemitism, “Branding the Nazis” (lecture), “Fips” pseudonym for cartoonist Philipp Rupprecht ((1900-1975), “Quiet Violence: The Deep Structure of Violence in the Graphic Arts” (lecture), “Race and Visual Culture Under National Socialism” (Exhibit at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum (FIU), Children's propaganda books, Demonization, Der Stürmer (Periodical), Design educators, designers, dictators, Don’t Trust a Fox on a Green Heath or a Jew By His Oath (Nazi children’s book), Eric Feiler, evil, Final Solution, FIU Associate Professor Oren Stier, FIU Jewish Studies Program, Frank Luca, Frost Museum Teaching Gallery, graphic designers, Guest lecturers, Heinrich Hoffmann (1885-1957), Holocaust, Identity and differentiation, Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State / by Steve Heller (2008), Julius Streicher (1885-1946), Juvenile literature, Louise Fili, Ludwig Sütterlin (1865-1917), Material and Visual Culture of the Holocaust, National Socialism, Nazi visual culture, Nazis, Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, podcasts, Professor Kenneth Johnson, Race hatred, Race-baiting, Steve Heller, Swastikas, The Daily Heller (blog post), The Poison Mushroom (Nazi children’s book), The Swastika: Symbol Beyond Redemption? / by Steve Heller (2008), War Criminals