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
BEFORE THE WORLD WENT TO WAR: GLIMPSES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY COLLECTION
• August 29, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in book art, collectors, displays, donations, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Italian design, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Panama Canal, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vienna, Vienna Secession, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: 1914, Acerba, AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), Alastair (1887-1969), Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), Austro-Hungarian Empire, Baron Hans Henning Voight (1887-1969), Belle Epoque, Blast (Vorticist manifesto), C. R. W. Nevinson (1889-1946), caricatures, Carmen, cartoons, Central Europe, Devrin D. Weiss, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949), Egon Schiele (1890-1918), F. T. (Filippo Tommaso) Marinetti (1876-1944), First World War, Franz joseph I, Futurism, Futurist poetry, Georges Goursat (1863-1934), German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Insects, Italian Futurism, Italian futurists, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, John Bull, Kriegs-album der Lustige Blätter (periodicals), Krupp, L'Eroica (periodical), Lacerba (Futurist manifesto), Le Mot (periodical), Le Vrai & le faux chic, Lobsters, Mela Koehler (1885-1960), Omega Workshops, Panama Canal, Paul Iribe (1883-1935), propaganda, Raul Rodriguez, Rebel Art Centre, Satire, Sem (1863-1934), Sharf Associate Librarian, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, silk advertisements, Social satire, Symbolist poetry, Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring) magazine, Vienna, Vienna Secession, Vorticism, Vorticists, war cartoons, Wien, Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), women's fashion, World War (1914-1918), Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), Zang Tumb Tuuum, Zira Cigarettes
DAZZLED! CAMOUFLAGE DESIGNED TO CONFUSE RATHER THAN HIDE: SOME WWI EXAMPLES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• August 6, 2014 • 2 CommentsPosted in automobile design, cars, ocean liners, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: “Drab Painting”, battleships, Blast (Vorticist manifesto), Burlington House, Camouflage, Cubism, Dazzle Painting, Doré Gallery, E. G. Fuller, Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949), Futurism, merchant marine, naval campaigns, Norman Wilkinson (1878-1971), Omega Workshops, Rebel Art Centre, Royal Academy of Arts (Piccadilly London), Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, ships, submarine warfare, the Great War, Troopships, U-Boats, Union Castle Line, Vorticism, Vorticists, warships, World War I, WWI, Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
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
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