Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture

Interrogating Dutchness and the Golden Age

Marsely Kehoe (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2023
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-363-3 (ISBN)

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We all look to our past to define our present, but we don’t always realize that our view of the past is shaped by subsequent events. It’s easy to forget that the Dutch dominated the world’s oceans and trade in the seventeenth century when our cultural imagination conjures up tulips and wooden shoes instead of spices and slavery. This book examines the Dutch so-called “Golden Age” though its artistic and architectural legacy, recapturing the global dimensions of this period by looking beyond familiar artworks to consider exotic collectibles and trade goods, and the ways in which far-flung colonial cities were made to look and feel like home. Using the tools of art history to approach questions about memory, history, and how cultures define themselves, this book demonstrates the centrality of material and visual culture to understanding history and cultural identity.

Marsely L. Kehoe, PhD, University of Wisconsin, is an independent scholar who works in higher education administration. Her research considers early modern Dutch material and visual culture in the colonial context.

List of Illustrations
1 Introduction: Grasping at the Past
2 The Gilded Cage: Dutch Global Aspirations
3 Gathering the Goods: Dutch Still Life Painting and the End of the "Golden Age"
4 Dutch Batavia: An Ideal Dutch City?
5 Simplifying the Past: Willemstad’s Historic and Historicizing Architecture
6 Conclusion: The "Golden Age" Today
Works Cited
Acknowledgements
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
Zusatzinfo	8 Illustrations, color; 75 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	94-6372-363-3 / 9463723633
ISBN-13	978-94-6372-363-3 / 9789463723633
Zustand	Neuware