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Poster, La mer a fait son choix.…. Vous aussi [The Sea Has Made Its Choice…. You Also], 1930s, Designed by Robert Roquin (dates unknown) |
This coming Friday, May 10, 2013 the Wolfsonian–FIU will inaugurate two exhibitions entitled "Modern Meals: Remaking American Foods from Farm to Kitchen," and "Women in Motion: Fitness, Sport, and the Female Figure," on view through August 18, 2013.
Modern Meals examines how advances in technology and design reshaped the places where food was produced, sold, cooked and eaten from the turn of the century into the post-1945 period.
Women in Motion displays images of physically active women produced by governments, fitness advocates, advertisers, and artists in Europe and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Poster, Eislauf[Skating], sheet from Davos, c. 1916, Designed by Burkhard Mangold (Swiss, 1873–1950) |
Artwork, advertisements, magazine covers, and political propaganda at the time celebrated the athletic and healthy woman as a source of sex appeal, a basis of national vigor, and sometimes as a figure of individual self-fulfillment.
“Modern Meals examines how people in the U.S. began eating foods that were mass-produced in the first half of the 20th century," said Jon Mogul, Assistant Director for Research and Academic Initiatives.
The exhibitions are part of the Wolfsonian’s teaching gallery which are made in conjunction with FIU faculty members April Merleaux (Department of History) the guest curator of Modern Meals; and Laurie Shrage (Philosophy and Women’s Studies) and Dionne Stephens (Psychology, and African and African Diaspora Studies) guest curators for Women in Motion.
The development of these exhibitions was supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.