{"title":"George W. Boudreau and Margaretta Markle Lovell, eds. A Material World: Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2019. 344 pp.; 22 color and 109 black-and-white illustrations, notes, index. $49.95.","authors":"Cynthia E. Chin","doi":"10.1086/714679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/714679","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41731028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Books Received","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/714677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/714677","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"55 1","pages":"82 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49611118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complicit Material Culture","authors":"Nalleli Guillen","doi":"10.1086/717048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/717048","url":null,"abstract":"Should all historic artifacts owned or utilized by enslavers bear some responsibility for their actions? This case study of a portrait miniature of George Washington and its remarkable journey through Revolutionary War–era Brooklyn argues that perhaps they should. This study unpacks the direct role that this object—while not a direct artifact of slavery or of the slave trade—played in perpetuating the enslavement of Black Brooklynites following the war and the responsibility that museums bear today to grapple with the ugly truth of “complicit material culture” in future object reinterpretation projects.","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"55 1","pages":"49 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47345816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brandi Thompson Summers. Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 232 pp.; 16 halftones, 1 table, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (paper).","authors":"B. Combs","doi":"10.1086/714680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/714680","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44776591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"M. Elizabeth Boone. “The Spanish Element in Our Nationality”: Spain and America at the World’s Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876–1915. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2020. 256 pp.; 20 color and 80 black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $99.95.","authors":"Alba Campo Rosillo","doi":"10.1086/713397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713397","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"54 1","pages":"305-307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713397","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45656690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catherine Croft and Susan Macdonald. Concrete: Case Studies in Conservation Practice. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2019. 207 pp.; 162 color and 21 black-and-white illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. $59.95 (paper).","authors":"M. Jablonski","doi":"10.1086/713398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713398","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"54 1","pages":"308-310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713398","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46907725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teresa A. Goddu. Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 344 pp.; 78 black-and-white illustrations, notes, index. $55.00.","authors":"E. L. Ball","doi":"10.1086/713395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713395","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"54 1","pages":"301-302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713395","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47821617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Protected Place","authors":"W. Stewart","doi":"10.1086/713896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713896","url":null,"abstract":"How did enslaved individuals use material culture to create a feeling of protection where they were coerced to live and labor? As a part of their home-making—their attempts to transform spaces of bondage into homeplaces—enslaved residents of Stagville plantation in North Carolina concealed objects like a walking stick, cowrie shell, and forked sticks within plantation dwellings in the hopes that such actions and artifacts would safeguard them. Analyzing these objects within their depositional and temporal contexts reveals not only enslaved peoples’ desires for a protected place in their precarious world but their concerted actions to realize it.","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"54 1","pages":"245 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713896","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45225957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abigail Joseph. Exquisite Materials: Episodes in the Queer History of Victorian Style. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2019. xiii+308 pp.; 30 black-and-white illustrations, notes, references, index. $39.50 (paper).","authors":"J. Potvin","doi":"10.1086/713401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713401","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"54 1","pages":"302-304"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713401","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41657035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editors’ Introduction","authors":"Catharine Dann Roeber, J. Van Horn","doi":"10.1086/714904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/714904","url":null,"abstract":"“I TSTARTED with a cabinet.” These words introduce the digital version of an exhibition, “Truths of the Trade: Slavery and the Winterthur Collection,” curated by graduate students in theWinterthurProgram inAmericanMaterialCulture taught by Catharine Dann Roeber and in the University of Delaware’s Department of Art History taught by Jennifer Van Horn during the 2017–18 academic year. The temporary onsite exhibition and the later digital component (http://truthsofthetrade .winterthur.org) centered on an object with a deeply troublinghistory: aneighteenth-century double cabinet once used to house business records, correspondence, and accounts related to transatlantic trade including the sale of captive peoples of African descent (fig. 1). The place names—Senegambia, Madeira, Philadelphia (barely legible), Jamaica, Leeward Islands, North Carolina, Waterford, Bristol, Teneriffe, and Gold Coast—and business record and supply labels emblazoned on its drawers, suggest that unidentified users—likely merchants, ship captains, or clerks—kept insurance and administrative papers related to the slave trade within the furniture form (fig. 2). The online version continues the work of the onsite exhibition, inviting viewers to question how objects in Winterthur’s museum and library collections reveal the fundamental interrelationships betweenenslavement, racism, andcommerce. Through exploration of individual artifacts (in museum labels and object videos), the students reveal how pro-","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"54 1","pages":"199 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/714904","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42351844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}