{"title":"Bronze as Model","authors":"Michael Cole","doi":"10.1086/721203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721203","url":null,"abstract":"This essay focuses on a matter of description, looking at instances where small bronze statuettes from Renaissance Europe are called “models” and assessing how well that label fits its object.","PeriodicalId":53917,"journal":{"name":"West 86th-A Journal of Decorative Arts Design History and Material Culture","volume":"28 1","pages":"232 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46124535","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":"Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole. Matthew M. Reeve. Philadelphia: Penn State University Press, 2020. 280 pp.; 54 color and 89 b/w illus. Hardcover $74.95; e-book $39.99. ISBN 978-0-271-08588-3","authors":"A. Lepine","doi":"10.1086/721224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721224","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53917,"journal":{"name":"West 86th-A Journal of Decorative Arts Design History and Material Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48333046","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":"The Changing Role of the Metal Conservator","authors":"T. Beentjes","doi":"10.1086/721199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721199","url":null,"abstract":"in provides a good understanding of materials, their deterioration, and the scientific procedures required for complex treatments. A new generation of formally trained conservators has learned from an older generation of many autodidacts and their research, sparking a transition from craftsperson to academic practitioner with equal emphasis on academic and manual skills. This combination of scholar and practitioner has proven to be valuable for the understanding of objects, result-ing in interesting new insights. Today’s metal conservator is, for example, more and more involved with the art-technological aspects of objects and has a better awareness of relevant materials and techniques. With an increased knowledge of those material aspects, the modern conservator is also more alert to the impact of past and current treatments. As a result, conservators are to use interventive treatments and approach such actions with","PeriodicalId":53917,"journal":{"name":"West 86th-A Journal of Decorative Arts Design History and Material Culture","volume":"28 1","pages":"197 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48354395","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":"Defining Questions about Metal Images in Southeast Asia","authors":"F. Asher","doi":"10.1086/721197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721197","url":null,"abstract":"As increasing attention is given to the dynamic flows of travel throughout the Indian Ocean in the first millennium, new aspects of contact and interchange are emerging. It is crucial to reflect on what we think we know and what questions should now be asked.","PeriodicalId":53917,"journal":{"name":"West 86th-A Journal of Decorative Arts Design History and Material Culture","volume":"28 1","pages":"184 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48441170","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":"Reflections on a Radiant “National” Treasure: The Rao Pectoral","authors":"Alisa Lagamma","doi":"10.1086/721208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721208","url":null,"abstract":"Reflections on a A gold pectoral exceptional for the quality of its workmanship and weight of 6.7 ounces makes it the most impressive of the burial goods found in northwest Senegal. While the decoration suggests an awareness of Islamic metallurgy, the context in which it was unearthed within a tumulus or burial mound is related to commemorative practices and beliefs that preceded the arrival of Islam in the eighth century.","PeriodicalId":53917,"journal":{"name":"West 86th-A Journal of Decorative Arts Design History and Material Culture","volume":"28 1","pages":"269 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46718555","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":"Metalwork in the Past and Present: Lord of Sipán and Tumi del Oro in Peru","authors":"Alicia Boswell","doi":"10.1086/721201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721201","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the use and significance of metalwork in the ancient Andes, drawing on the historical and contemporary perception of two well-known artifacts, the regalia of the Lord of Sipán and the Tumi de Oro, to demonstrate how metalwork remains an essential component of Peruvian heritage and Peru’s tourism industry today.","PeriodicalId":53917,"journal":{"name":"West 86th-A Journal of Decorative Arts Design History and Material Culture","volume":"28 1","pages":"209 - 214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42092325","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":"The Museum as Experience: An Email Odyssey through Artists’ and Collectors’ Museums. Dario L. Gamboni. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. 404 pp., 140 color and 60 b/w ills. Cloth €50.00. ISBN 978-2-503-58351-8","authors":"E. Williams","doi":"10.1086/721226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721226","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53917,"journal":{"name":"West 86th-A Journal of Decorative Arts Design History and Material Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47517428","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":"The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness. Emanuele Lugli. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 312 pp.; 16 color and 40 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00; e-book from $10.00. ISBN 9780226612492","authors":"Tom Nickson","doi":"10.1086/721225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721225","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53917,"journal":{"name":"West 86th-A Journal of Decorative Arts Design History and Material Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46382075","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":"Liquid Metaphors and the Politics of Melted Metal","authors":"Allison Stielau","doi":"10.1086/721215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721215","url":null,"abstract":"Liquid Metaphors and the Politics of Melted Metal By recording the physical evidence of metal’s molten transition between forms, gold and silver ingots offer a material foothold on the metaphors of liquidity and flow used to con-ceptualize the global circulation of precious metal in premodernity. This article examines the human role in making metal liquid and the political stakes of framing melted artifacts historically and museologically by way of an ingot now in Mexico City that was produced from Indigenous gold during the Spanish conquest.","PeriodicalId":53917,"journal":{"name":"West 86th-A Journal of Decorative Arts Design History and Material Culture","volume":"28 1","pages":"319 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46147716","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":"The Phantom Image: Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome. Patrick R. Crowley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 308 pp.; 25 color and 71 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00. ISBN 9780226648293","authors":"Nathaniel B. Jones","doi":"10.1086/721227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721227","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53917,"journal":{"name":"West 86th-A Journal of Decorative Arts Design History and Material Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44513911","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}