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Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia
396 Pages
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Routledge
396 Pages
by
Routledge
396 Pages
by
Routledge
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While the socio-economic and historical aspects of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) have been extensively documented and researched, the role of the VOC in visual culture and the arts has been relatively neglected. This authoritative volume addresses various aspects of cultural exchange between the Low Countries and Asia. Increased prosperity and the flood of imported goods from Asia had a huge... Read more
Preface, Introduction, 1 Terms of Reception, 2 Reconfiguring the Northern European Print to Depict Sacred History at the Persian Court, 3 Dutch Cemeteries in South India, 4 Coasts and Interiors of India, 5 Art and Material Culture in the Cape Colony and Batavia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, 6 Indische Architecture in Indonesia, 7 The Cultural Dimension of the Dutch East India Company, 8 European Artists in the Service of the Dutch East India Company, 9 Scratching the Surface, 10 The Dutch Presence in Japan, 11 From Optical Prints to Ukie to Ukiyoe, 12 Japan’s Encounters with the West through the VOC, 13 “To Capture Their Favor”, 14 Circulating Art and Material Culture, Illustration Credits, Index
Biography
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann is Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.
Michael North is Professor and Chair of Modern History at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany.
