Heather Ecker is Marguerite S. Hoffman and Thomas W. Lentz Curator of Islamic and Medieval Art at Dallas Museum of Art. Judith Henon-Renaud is Deputy Director of the Department of Islamic Arts at the Louvre. Pascale Lepeu is curator of the Cartier Collection. Violette Petit is head of the Cartier Paris Archives. Évelyne Possémé is Chief Curator, Art Nouveau-Art Deco and Antique and Modern Jewelry at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Sarah Schleuning is Interim Chief Curator and The Margot B. Perot Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at Dallas Museum of Art.
Forewords by Pierre-Alexis Dumas, Cyrille Vigneron, Agustín Arteaga, Olivier Gabet and Pierre Rainero CATALOGUE Cartier
The Story Pascale Lepeu A Journey into the Cartier Archives Violette Petit The
Revelation
of Islamic Arts: a Path to Modernity? Judith Henon-Raynaud and Évelyne Possémé Exquisite Manuscripts and Inlaid Objects: Reconstructing Louis Cartier
s Collection of Islamic Art Judith Henon-Raynaud Cartier and India: a Source of Formal and Technical Renewal Évelyne Possémé Cartier
s lexicon of forms: Abstractions, the `Arab
Style, and the `Persian
Style Heather Ecker An Exploration of Islamic Aesthetic Influence on Cartier
s Graphics, 1909-1940 Sarah Schleuning APPENDIX Check list of exhibited works (with illustrations) Comprehensive list of Louis Cartier
s collection (with illustrations)
