January 17, 2024, Filed Under: Art, Digital Collections, FilmStar Power and Spectacle: Decoding 1940s Movie Posters by ASH KINNEY D’HARCOURT By the 1940s, the Golden Age of Hollywood was in full swing. This era was marked by its iconic films, glamorous movie stars, and the dominance of the major Hollywood studios in which film production and marketing were highly structured and standardized. In the preceding decade,… read more
January 8, 2024, Filed Under: Art, Digital Collections, FilmVisual Narratives: The Language of Movie Posters by ASH KINNEY D’HARCOURT In recent years, the movie poster has transcended its humble origins. Once considered uncredited works of art, movie posters have risen to prominence as sought-after treasures in art auctions, as prized acquisitions in personal collections, and as exhibits in museums and galleries—a transformation that reflects a… read more
September 3, 2015, Filed Under: CatalogingPaul Gottschalk: the German bookseller who anticipated a contentious Nazi-era elections legacy The Ransom Center’s recently-processed archival collection titled “1932 German Elections Ephemera Collection” was assembled in the 1930s by the German-American book seller Paul Gottschalk. The sequence of events that the collection documents—that is, the rise of Adolf Hitler to
