Articles

Art Nouveau, Art of Darkness: African Lineages of Belgian Modernism, Part I
Debora Silverman

Carving, Recarving, and Forgery: Working Ivory in the Tenth and Twentieth Centuries
Anthony Cutler

Duplicitous Forms
Sarah M. Guérin

From the Desk of Roland Barthes: Putting Mater (and Pater) Back in Materialism
Ben Kafka

The Art of the Deal, 1828: How Isidro Icaza Traded Pre-Columbian Antiquities to Henri Baradère for Mounted Birds and Built a National Museum in Mexico City in the Process
Miruna Achim

Toward a Fusion of Art History and Material Culture Studies
Michael Yonan

Book Reviews

Artistic Circles: Design & Decoration in the Aesthetic Movement


Reviewed by Ailsa Boyd

Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism


Reviewed by Michael White

Grand Illusion: The Third Reich, the Paris Exposition, and the Cultural Seduction of France


Reviewed by Amy Ogata

Historia del diseño en América Latina y el Caribe: Industrialización y comunicación visual para la autonomía


Reviewed by Patricia Lara-Betancourt

Medieval Ivory Carvings: Early Christian to Romanesque


Reviewed by Anthony Cutler

Modern British Posters: Art, Design & Communication


Reviewed by Stephen Eskilson

Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910–1945


Reviewed by Christine Y. Hahn

Exhibition Reviews

A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection


Reviewed by Jennifer Komar Olivarez

La Belle époque de Jules Chéret: De l’affiche au décor


Reviewed by Phillip Dennis Cate

Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe


Reviewed by Ittai Weinryb