1st Edition
Visions of Savage Paradise Albert Eckhout, Court Painter in Colonial Dutch Brazil
By Rebecca Brienen
Copyright 2007
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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Visions of Savage Paradise is the first major book-length study of the Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published since 1938. This book, which draws extensively on the author's doctoral dissertation, examines the fascinating works of art produced by Eckhout while he was court painter in Dutch Brazil to the German count Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen.Johan Maurits, who was colonial governor... Read more
Introduction, 1 Albert Eckhout (ca. 1607-1665/6): Portrait and Still-life Painter at Johan Maurits's Brazilian Court, 2 ‘To Reproduce Nature Itself as Perfectly as Possible’: The Brazilian Natural History Drawings of Albert Eckhout, 3 Cannibalizing America: From the Ethnographic Impulse to the Ethnographic Portrait, 4 Between the Savage and the Civilized: Eckhout’s Brasilianen and Tapuyas, 5 Black, Brown, and Yellow: Eckhout’s Paintings of Africans, Mestizos, and Mulattos, 6 Eckhout’s Paintings: Location and Interpretation, Conclusion, Colour Plates, Appendix A: Chronological Overview of Albert Eckhout’s Life, Appendix B: Works of Art by Albert Eckhout, Notes,232 Bibliography, Index of Names, General Index, List of Illustrations.
Biography
Rebecca Parker Brienen is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Miami. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the Kress Foundation. Her publications on early modern visual culture include articles and catalog essays on the German naturalist-illustrator Georg Macgraf and the Dutch artists Frans Post and Albert Eckhout. In addition to a new project on images of slavery in the Caribbean in the 18th century, she is currently editing a collection of essays on images of the Conquest of Mexico.
