Full Description
The Dutch West India Company - active in Brazil, the Caribbean, North America, and West Africa - has received little art historical attention compared to the considerable scholarship about the Dutch East India Company. Terming the network of outposts connected by their activities the "Dutch Americas", this volume seeks to account for the material histories undergirded by the activities managed by the Dutch in the Atlantic world. The volume offers new narratives for familiar artists such as Frans Post and Albert Eckhout; interrogates the relationship of understudied geographies and corresponding trade goods to art produced in this period; and integrates perspectives of Indigenous and African makers and viewers.
Contributors: Carrie Anderson, Adam Eaker, Aaron M. Hyman, Carolina Monteiro, Stephanie Porras, Hannah Prescott, Margaux Shraiman, Margot Steurbaut, Jeroen van den Hurk, Michiel van Groesen, Angela Vanhaelen, Edward Wouk, and Rebecca Zorach.
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Contents
Towards an art history of the Dutch Americas
Aaron M. Hyman and Stephanie Porras
The glazing of Beverwijck's First Dutch Reformed Church: Colonial power visualized
Margot Steurbaut
Dutch Reformed churches in Colonial North America: To 'promote godliness in every way'
Jeroen van den Hurk
All things created: Slavery, African knowledge, and material culture in Dutch Brazil (1630-1654)
Carolina Monteiro
A private Atlantic: The Ter Borch family albums as colonial archive
Adam Eaker
Amsterdam, Accra, America: Glass beads, pearls, and ersatz gems in the Dutch Atlantic
Carrie Anderson
A crown made of brass: Dutch piracy and commodifying West African identity in the seventeenth-century transatlantic slave trade
Hannah Prescott
Commercialising Eden: Frans Post's drawings of the Fortunate Isles
Margaux Shraiman
Displacement : Picturing captive women in Brazil
Angela Vanhaelen
Allegory and allegiance: The Dutch Americas in the imagination of Bonaventura and Gillis Peeters
Michiel van Groesen
Making and unmaking worlds with tëmakwe
Rebecca Zorach
