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)
Lynd Ward’s Graphic Novels of the Depression Decade
• January 23, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, book art, FIU, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, Great Depression, Honor's College, leftist artists, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal era, political art, skyscrapers, slums, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: Alois Kolb, anxiety, artists, Black Lives Matter, capitalist critiques, Death, demonstrations, expectant mothers, factories, Fascism, Faust, Frans Masereel, Georg A. Mathey, German Expressionism, God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts (1929), graphic novels, Great Depression, Hans Alexander Mueller, Harry F. Ward, homelessness, industrial buildings, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), lynchings, Madman's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts (1930), Militarism, National Academy of Graphic Arts (Leipzig), National Guard, Police, Prelude to a Million Years: A Book of Wood Engravings (1933), protests, relief lines, rollercoasters, sequential art storytelling, slave trade, slavery, smokestacks, social unrest, Socialists, Song Without Words: A Book of Engravings on Wood (1936), starvation, strikes, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1920), Upsurge / by Robert Gessner, Vertigo: A Novel in Woodcuts (1937), vigilantes, violence, Wild Pilgrimage: A Novel in Woodcuts (1932), wood engravers, wood engraving, Woodcuts, wordless novels
WOLFSONIAN TALK, WORKSHOP, AND TEEN COMIC CRITIQUE WITH DENNIS CALERO
• April 26, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American left artists, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, book art, collectors, Communism, Communists, documentaries, donations, Fascism, FDR, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Japan, Japanese Empire, leftist artists, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, political art, Popular Front, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Allies, Axis, Back to Work: FDR and Labor's New Deal (Exhibit), Batman, Cartoonists, cartoons, Chiang Kai Shek (1887–1975), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Comic books, Comic Kraze, comics, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, Dennis Calero, Digital art, Film noir, FIU Professor Bernadine Heller-Greenman, Francis Xavier Luca, German Expressionism, Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), God's Man: A Novel In Woodcuts, graphic novels, Hans Alexander Mueller, Harry Bridges (1901-1990), Harry Ward (1873–1966), Hideki Tōjō (1884–1948), labor leaders, labor un, Longshoremen’s Strike (1936-1937), Marvel Comics, New World School of the Arts, O Brother Man: The Art and Life of Lynd Ward, Patriotism, Photoshop, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Prime Minister Winston Churchill, promised gifts, Pulbic talks, Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, Silent film, Socialists, Steven King's The Little Green God of Agony, strikes, Superman, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1920), The Communist Manifesto in pictures, unions, War bonds, Web comics, West Coast Longshoremen, wood engravers, wood engraving, X-Men Noir
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