by The Trust | May 10, 2023
MoMA Goes to Paris: New Book about the 1938 ‘Three Centuries of American Art’ Exhibition by Caroline M. Riley The new book MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938: Building and Politicizing American Art (University of California Press, 2023) is the first to explore the Museum of...
by The Trust | Mar 14, 2023
Should We Exalt Individual Designers? A New Book Honors and Challenges the Idea of Women in Design by Kate Burnett Budzyn Published in January of this year, Women in Design is design historian Anne Massey’s contribution to Thames & Hudson’s World of Art...
by The Trust | Aug 18, 2022
The Well-Dressed Man: New Book Focuses on British Dandies by John-Duane Kingsley British Dandies: Engendering A Scandal and Fashioning A Nation by Dominic Janes (The Chicago University Press, 2022) presents a compelling examination of the evolution of the...
by The Trust | Jul 11, 2022
The Fibers that Bind: A New “People’s History of Clothing” by Kate Burnett Budzyn It’s been a long time since I’ve been as surprised by a book as I was by Sofi Thanhauser’s Worn: A People’s History of Clothing. As the book review editor at Winterthur Portfolio, I...
by The Trust | Mar 1, 2022
Designing Motherhood: A Visceral Design Guide to the Material Culture of Reproduction by Kate Burnett Budzyn Pregnancy pillows, exam stirrups, nursing bras, pantyliners: the stuff of design? In their new book—based on a years-long multiplatform project in partnership...
by The Trust | Dec 8, 2021
Black Designers in American Fashion: Making Space for Dress History Across Disciplines by Kate Burnett Budzyn Black Designers in American Fashion is, simply put, one of the most important recent publications in historic dress scholarship. Released this past summer...
by The Trust | Nov 22, 2021
The Stories They Tell…from the Herdeg Collection by Matthew A. Thurlow With the caveat that I housesat for Judy and John Herdeg as a graduate student and enjoyed their hospitality on numerous occasions during my academic and professional careers, their recent...
by The Trust | Sep 10, 2021
Bodily Things: Three Recent Books Underscore the Centrality of Bodies in Material Studies by Kate Burnett Budzyn It is a fact “so obvious that some of us take it for granted,” writes the historian and anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot: “History begins with bodies...
