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Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture Interrogating Dutchness and the Golden Age
By Marsely Kehoe
Copyright 2023
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 it's cultural imagination conjures up tulips and wooden shoes instead of spices and slavery. This book examines the Dutch so-called “Golden Age” though its... Read more
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.
Biography
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.
...Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture is an ambitious and far-reaching book. Ranging geographically from Willemstad, Curaçao to Jakarta, Indonesia and Holland, Michigan in the USA, Kehoe interrogates how a practice that she calls 'Dutching' shapes selected works of art, architecture, and material culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.-Angela Vanhaelen, Sehepunkte , Volume 4, 2024
