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Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship Program
The Wolfsonian-Florida International University is a museum and research
center that promotes the examination of modern visual and material culture.
The focus of the Wolfsonian collection is on North American and European
decorative arts, propaganda, architecture, and industrial and graphic design
of the period 1885-1945. The Wolfsonian library has approximately 50,000
rare books, periodicals, and ephemeral items, as well as standard reference
materials.
The Wolfsonian’s collection is an important resource for the study of
Italian culture and politics in the first half of the twentieth century. The
Wolfsonian holds an outstanding collection of Italian Stile Floreale
furniture and decorative art, as well as rare publications that document
Italian design of this period. The collection also has strong holdings of
Futurist decorative and graphic art, publications about Rationalist
architecture, and exhibition catalogs from the 1920s and 1930s. A number of
significant journals – such as Domus, Capitolium, Emporium, Casabella –
complement these holdings.
Books, journals, fine art, posters, and other objects in the collection
address key aspects of the Fascist regime, including the Duce cult; Italian
colonization of North Africa; the planning of new towns; the celebration of
aeronautic achievements; the autarchy campaign; youth and student
organizations; Romanità; and sports and fitness campaigns. The Wolfsonian
also has a substantial amount of Italian war propaganda, including an
archive of propaganda material produced under the Italian Social Republic.
Besides material from Italy, the Wolfsonian also has extensive holdings from
the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands. There are
also smaller but significant collections of materials from a number of other
countries, including Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Japan, the former
Soviet Union and Hungary.
Fellowships are intended to support full-time research, generally for a
period of three to five weeks. The program is open to holders of master’s or
doctoral degrees, Ph.D. candidates, and to others who have a significant
record of professional achievement in relevant fields. Applicants are
encouraged to discuss their project with the Fellowship Coordinator prior to
submission to ensure the relevance of their proposals to the Wolfsonian’s
collection.
The application deadline is December 31, for residency during the 2008-2010
academic years.
For information, please contact:
Jonathan Mogul
Fellowship Coordinator/Research Associate
The Wolfsonian-FIU
1001 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
305-535-2613 (phone)
305-531-2133 (fax)
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http://www.wolfsonian.fiu.edu/education/research/index.html
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