The Feminine Touch: The Artwork of Two French Africanists
• May 12, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, architecture, Artists, book art, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, France, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, international expositions, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Orientalism, pochoirs, portfolios, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, women, World's fairs
Tags: Africa, African proverbs, Algiers, artists, Au pays de Samba Diouf, Cameroon-Togo, Colonial administrators, colonial governors, colonialism, Exhibition buildings, Exposition Coloniale Internationale (Paris: 1931), female artists, Francis Xavier Luca, French colonies, French mandates, French overseas territories, indigenous architecture, indigenous peoples, Léon Truitard (1885-1972), Leon Truitard, Mary Morin, Palais de la Porte, Paris, pavilions, pochoir prints, Quelques images de la grande exposition colonial, Senegal, stencil works, Sudan, Suzanne (née Balliste) Truitard (1893-1986), Suzanne Truitard, Territoires Africains sous mandat de la France (Cameroun-Togo), Watercolor paintings, wood engravers, wood engraving
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
WARDS OF THE STATE
• November 9, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, American left artists, FDR, gifts, leftist artists, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), New Deal era, Popular Front, propaganda arts, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library
Tags: African American history, book illustrators, civil rights, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Cold War, Francis Xavier Luca, Ginger Leff, God's Man, graphic novels, Great Depression, Harry F. Ward, Henry Wallace, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., North Star Shining, Paul Revere, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Obama look-alikes, President Truman, Progressive Party, Red Scares, Socialists, Srock Market Crash (1929), US-Soviet relations, US-USSR relations, wood engravers, wood engravings, wordless novels, World War II
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK!
• August 24, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 125th anniversary of Yellowstone National Park, Alice Moore Hubbard (1861-1915), American bison, Arts and Crafts movement, Boo Boo Bear, Buffalo, East Aurora, Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), Harold E. Keeler (1905-1968), Howard Gottlieb, National Park Service, National Parks, New York, Old Faithful, Photochroms (color lithographic prints), the Roycrofters, William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), wood block prints, wood engravers, Yellowstone National Park, Yogi Bear
FIENDISH FRANKENSTEIN AND OTHER ENGRAVINGS BY LYND WARD
• October 29, 2010 • Leave a CommentPosted in Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Frankenstein, Halloween, Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), Madman’s Drum, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), monsters, Song Without Words, wood engravers, wood engraving
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