{"title":"Saidiya Hartman. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals. New York: W. W. Norton, 2019. 464 pp.; 348 black-and-white illustrations. $17.95 (paper).","authors":"B. Burton","doi":"10.1086/713396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713396","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"54 1","pages":"304-305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45487623","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":"Packed Sacks and Pieced Quilts","authors":"T. Miles","doi":"10.1086/713895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713895","url":null,"abstract":"What is the role of material objects in the study and understanding of enslaved people’s experiences? Focusing on the examples of the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Massachusetts, story quilts created by Harriet Powers, and the cloth bag known as Ashley’s Sack, the article considers how things can engage visitors at historic sites, capture students’ imaginations in the classroom, and function as fruitful sources in historical research. Combined with the documentary record and oral history accounts, material objects can enrich our interpretations of enslaved peoples’ social conditions, emotional lives, and historical times.","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"54 1","pages":"205 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45841285","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":"Joshua Klein. Hands Employed Aright: The Furniture Making of Jonathan Fisher (1768–1847). Fort Mitchell, KY: Lost Art Press, 2018. xii+269 pp.; color illustrations, bibliography, index. $57.00.","authors":"Sharon C. Mehrman","doi":"10.1086/713399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713399","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"54 1","pages":"310-312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713399","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46733708","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":"Enslaved Labor and Cultural Capital","authors":"N. Elder, D. Greenwald","doi":"10.1086/714271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/714271","url":null,"abstract":"Using the tools of economic analysis and art history, this article analyzes John Singleton Copley’s colonial portraits as goods in an imperial economy anchored, in part, in the transatlantic slave trade. A public-facing database details the relationship each sitter had to the institution of slavery, and the text explains how and why Copley’s portraits of them speak to this largely unrepresented context. In commissioning portraits of themselves as wealthy individuals, the sitters transmuted Black enslaved labor into white cultural capital. This finding reveals the racial politics of the culture of gentility and the imbricated economic histories of art and slavery.","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"54 1","pages":"223 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/714271","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47945721","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 Dazzling, Unusual Bit of Cloth","authors":"Re Bush","doi":"10.1086/714956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/714956","url":null,"abstract":"Centering on an antebellum overshot coverlet long interpreted as having been made by an enslaved woman, this essay examines the roles this coverlet played for its creator and owners in a variety of racialized settings before considering the multiple interpretive avenues this artifact opens for twenty-first-century audiences in an interdisciplinary museum. This includes techniques to foreground the coverlet’s maker and her life as museums prioritize inclusive interpretation of difficult history. The recurring examination and shifting interpretations of the coverlet by scholars from a variety of backgrounds suggest its enduring appeal as an object of fascination, curiosity, and beauty.","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"54 1","pages":"271 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/714956","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45105592","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":"Elizabeth Zanoni. Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2018. xii+273 pp.; 22 black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $32.00 (paper).","authors":"Justin A. Nystrom","doi":"10.1086/713400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713400","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"54 1","pages":"307-308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713400","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42440878","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":"Swedish Migration, Naval Militarism, and Industrial Modernity","authors":"T. Brown, Svea Larson","doi":"10.1086/711868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/711868","url":null,"abstract":"Early transatlantic memorialization of John Ericsson portrayed the designer of the Civil War ironclad Monitor as a symbol of Swedish migration, naval preparedness, and industrial society. The campaign for a monument in Washington, DC, revealed divisions among Swedish Americans and tensions with the federal bureaucracy and Swedish monarchy amid the upheavals of World War I. After the failure of efforts to integrate the Ericsson Memorial with the nearby Lincoln Memorial, the monument dedicated in 1926 sought to unify the established themes and constituencies, but subsequent initiatives showed that Swedish Americans, other Americans, and Swedes now saw Ericsson differently.","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"54 1","pages":"117 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/711868","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47583807","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":"Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma, T. J. Ferguson, and Chip Colwell, eds. Footprints of Hopi History: Hopihiniwtiput Kukveni’at. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018. xiv+274 pp.; 66 black-and-white illustrations, appendix, index. $35.00.","authors":"James F. Brooks","doi":"10.1086/711330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/711330","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/711330","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42099512","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. Toulouse and Barbara C. Ewell, eds. Sweet Spots: In-Between Spaces in New Orleans. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018. xx+299 pp.; 99 color illustrations, notes, index. $30.00 (paper).","authors":"Christopher M. Grant","doi":"10.1086/711333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/711333","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"54 1","pages":"195-196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/711333","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42196975","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":"Ben Nicholson and Michaelangelo Sabatini, eds. Avant-Garde in the Cornfields: Architecture, Landscape and Preservation in New Harmony. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. xxxiv+351 pp.; 28 color and 160 black and white illustrations, notes, maps, index. $40.00 (paper).","authors":"K. M. Fernandez","doi":"10.1086/711332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/711332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/711332","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41750982","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}