The Streets and Faces of Chas Laborde (1886–1941)
• February 28, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, Artists, book art, Broadway, collectors, First World War (1914-1918), France, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Depression, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Occupied France, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 20th century, airports, Berlin, book illustrators, Broadway, cafe life, Chas Laborde (1886-1941), cityscapes, Colette, commercial boulevards, crowd scenes, dance halls, Ecole de Patience (book), engraving, etching, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Carco (1886-1958), French authors, French illustrators, French soldiers, Gus Bofa (1883-1968), illustrations, Jean Giraudoux, L'Assiette au Beurre (magazine), L'Homme Traque (book), L'Inflation Sentimentale (book), La Baionnette (magazine), La Chronique filme du mois (magazine), landscapes, Le Rire (magazine), Le Rire Rouge (magazine), Librairie Walden, London, Metro subway, New York City, nightlife, Opera, outdoor cafes, Paris, Paris-Midi (magazine), Paul Morand, pen and ink drawings, pencil sketches, Pierre Falké (1884-1947), Pierre Mac Orlan (1882-1970), portraits, promenades, prostitution, Salon des Artistes Humoristes, Satire, Sketchbooks, Social satire, Societe des Dessinateurs Humoristes, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Streets and faces, streetscapes, Tendres Stocks (books), theatre district, Trench warfare, Valery Larbaud, Vanity Fair (magazine), virtual book fairs, war artists, War in art
Memorial Day Reflections on the Spanish-American War and World War II
• May 27, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1940s, acquisitions, American war propaganda, archives, book art, cataloging, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, concentration camp, Cuba, curators, displays, donations, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Green Library, History Department, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Maine (Battleship, Manila (Philippines), memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Monroe County Public Library (Key West, museums, Philippines, photography, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, publishers' decorative bindings, Puerto Rico, rare books and special collections library, Spanish-American War, The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: "Sand in their Boots" Collection, Admiral George Dewey, Anne Layton Rice, Army Air Forces Technical Training Command (Miami Beach), Battle of Kettle Hill, Cuba, Cuban Independence wars, Evangelina Cisneros, fans, Frederic A. Sharf, Frederick Remington, General Valeriano Weyler, Havana (Cuba), human zoos, interns, Joseph Pulitzer, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Julia Ricks, Karl Decker, Manila Bay, maritime disasters, memorabilia, Memorial Day, Miami Beach (Florida), Monroe County Public Library (Key West, New York Journal (newspaper), New York World (newspaper), pillowcases, postcards, President Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt, propaganda, Puerto Rico, reconcentration camps, Remember the Maine!, reporters, Roney Plaza Hotel (Miami Beach), Rough Riders, Samal Moros (Philippines), Sheet music covers, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Spanish- American War of 1898, Taina Caragol, The Philippines, Tim Rodgers, U.S. Army Air Forces, U.S. colonial possessions, USS Maine (Battleship), veterans, Vicki Gold Levi, war artists, war correspondents, war hysteria, warships, William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), yearbooks, Yellow journalism
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
RAZZLE DAZZLE, ART BASEL: A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXHIBIT ON THE “GREAT WAR” AND THE DECORATION OF THE MUSEUM’S FAÇADE
• November 29, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in airplanes, American war propaganda, Armistice Day, children's books, Children's propaganda books, curators, displays, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, First World War (1914-1918), FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, Pamela K. Harer, passenger ships, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Veterans Day, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: airplanes, Art Basel, artists, biplanes, Camouflage, Dazzle Painting, facades, Intricate Pattern Overlay, Michelle Weinberg, Painting, Professor Francis Luca, R.M.S. Lusitania, ships, submarine warfare, the Great War, U-Boat attacks, U-Boats, unrestricted submarine warfare, war artists, warships, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
HALLOWEEN, WOLFSONIAN-STYLE: DR. CALIGARI, NOSFERATU, AND THE HORRORS OF THE “GREAT WAR”
• October 31, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in Florida International University, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Anton Kaes, Armistice (November 11th 1918), barbed wire, Camouflage, Cesare (film character), civilian casualties, coffins, Count Orlok, Cubism, Death, defoliated trees, Dr. Caligari (film character), F. W. Nurnau, Film noir, flu, Full Speed Ahead! (newspaper), G. Pretty's Kultur (water-color painting), Georg Grosz (1893-1959), German Expressionism, God's Man: A Novel In Woodcuts, graphic novels, Halloween, Holstenwall, hypnotism, influenza, influenza pandemic (1918-1919), insane asylums, Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), military conscription, movie reviews, movie sets, Nosferatu (film: 1922), plague, prophesy, psychiatrists, rat hunts, Rats, Red Cross, shadows, Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War, shell-bursts, Shell-shock, showmen, silent film classics, Silent Shriek (Wolfsonian film series), social criticism, somnambulists, Spanish Influenza epidemic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1921), the Great War (1914-1918), Transylvania, Trench warfare, Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière / [painting by] Andre Brouillet (1886), Vampires, Vermin, war and film, war artists, War casualties, war crimes, war neurosis, William Smithson Broadhead (1888-1960), World War (1914-1918), Wounded war veterans, zombies
CURATORS AND COLLECTORS MEET TO DISCUSS WOLFSONIAN FELIKS TOPOLSKI EXHIBITION PLANS
• January 24, 2014 • 2 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, British Army, Children's propaganda books, collectors, Communists, displays, donations, exhibitions, gifts, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, photography, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: 1939-1945, Alexander Nevsky (film : 1938), Archangel, Blitz, Elinor J. Brecher, Feliks Topolski (1907-1989), Hitler-Stalin Pact, Katyn forest massacre, Leo Brecher, London (England), Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), Molotov-Ribbentrop Nonaggression Pact, Moscow, Panama Canal, Picture Post magazine, Poland, Red Army, Red Square, Russia at War / photographs by Margaret Bourke-White (London; New York: Hutchinson & Co. 1942?), Russia in War (London: Metheun & Co 1942), Russian front, Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Sound recordings, Soviet Union, Steven Heller, Teresa Topolski, war artists, War photography, World War
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
WOLFSONIAN ARTIST PROFILE: LOUIS RAEMAEKERS (1869-1956)
• May 20, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in graphic arts, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: caricatures, caricaturists, Cartoonists, cartoons, Dutch illustrators, Emperor Franz Joseph (Austro-Hungarian Empire), illustrators, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany), Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Professor Sean Hermanson, propaganda, Sultan Mehmed V (Ottoman Empire), Truth and Propaganda, war, war artists, World War (1914-1918)
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