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
TROUBLED U.S.-RUSSIAN RELATIONS, FROM 1917 TO TODAY: A WOLFSONIAN REFLECTION
• December 30, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in Communism, Communists, Constructivism, donations, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet Union, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: Alexander Kerensky, American intervention, Barrack Obama, Bolsheviks, C.I.A., cartoons, Cyberattacks, destabilization, diplomacy, Donald Trump, First World War (1914-1918), hacking, John Reed's 10 Days That Shook the World, Leon Trotsky, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., propaganda, Propaganda posters, Provisional Government (Russia), regime change, ROSTA, Russian Civil War, Russian revolution, Russian Telegraph Agency (St. Petersburg Russia), sanctions, Sergey V. Lavrov, Soviet Union, U.S. presidential election (November 2016), U.S.-Russian relations, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Vlacheslav Polonskii (1886-1932), Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), Vladimir Ivanovich Lebedev (1894-1966), Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, World War I
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
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)
SOME PROPAGANDA POSTERS IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• February 7, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in donations, gifts, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, political art, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Adolf Hitler caricatures, African Americans in the military, Czechoslovakia, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, George Washington, Leonard A. Lauder, Lidice, Lidice massacre (Czechoslovakia), President Woodrow Wilson, propaganda, recruiting posters, Reinhold Heydrich, Symbols, The Wolfsonian-FIU, War bonds, women in the work force, World War I, World War II
FIU LITERATURE AND ART HISTORY STUDENTS, EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS, WOLFSONIAN & SHSA BOARD MEMBERS, AND A FAREWELL TO A WOLFSONIAN FELLOW ALL IN TWO DAYS!
• February 2, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in Artists, Children's propaganda books, French consulate, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, oceanliners, pochoirs, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Spanish Civil War, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: Advertisements, Art Deco bindings, Art Nouveau, Arte rustica italiana, Board members, book bindings, calendars, caricatures, Chas Laborde (1886-1941), Christopher DeNoon, Consul generals, Coronation souvenirs, Crowns, Dams, Deputy consul generals, Deutsche Gedenkhalle, Dolar Cotton, Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, ephemera, Eric Gill (1882-1940), Exposicion universal de Barcelona, F. T. (Filippo Tommaso) Marinetti (1876-1944), Fascist Italy, Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), France, Futurism, Germany, Ghostland, Great Depression, heraldry, international expositions, Iron and steel, Italian futurists, Italy, Joseph Hémard (1880-1961), Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Leslie Sternlieb, lottery, Men at work, Nazi Germany, Netherlands, ocean liners, Pamela K. Harer, Pochoir plates, portraits, postcards, Professor Carmela McIntire, Professor Heller-Greenman, Public work projects, Puzzles, Queen Elizabeth II, Rural electrification, Sheet music covers, Soviet Union, Spanish Civl War (1936-1939), Steamsip Historical Society of America (SHSA), stencil works, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), Une ambassade francaise, Union Square, United Kingdom, vintage postcards, Works Progress Administration, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WPA, Zang Tuum Tuum
BLOOD BULLION: A BOER WAR ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM FROM THE JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF COLLECTION IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY.
• November 7, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1899-1902, anti-Semitism, Boers, colonialism, concentration camp, donations, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Photograph albums, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, South African War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII, Zulus
Tags: Afrikaans, British Empire, FIU faculty, Frederic A. Sharf, gold rush, Guerrilla warfare, Italian fascism, Nazi visual culture, Nicholas Blaga, Orange Free State, photograph albums, Professor Elizabeth Heath, Rochelle Pienn, Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), South African Republic, South African War (1899-1902), Steve Heller, World War I, World War II
VISIT TO WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY BY ITALIAN CURATOR, SILVIA BARISIONE
• October 30, 2009 • Leave a CommentPosted in Coral Castle, curator, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Italian design, Silvia Barisione, Wolfsoniana
Tags: Bruno Munari (1907-1998), exhibitions, National Endowment for the Arts, postcards, vintage postcards, World War I, WWI
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