Trade, globalization, and Dutch art and architecture : interrogating Dutchness and the Golden Age / Marsely L. Kehoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kehoe, Marsely, author.

Series:

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700.

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Dutch.

Art, Dutch.

Collective memory.

Netherlands--Civilization.

Netherlands.

Netherlands--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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' through 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.

Contents:

List of illustrations

1. Introduction: Grasping at the past

Dutch and Dutching: hybridity and decolonization

Collective identity, memory, forgetting, and innocence

The importance of material culture and art history to tell this story

Global Dutch art history

Chapter outline

Dutch identity in conflict

Works cited

2. The gilded cage: Dutch global aspirations

The European Age of Discovery

Establishment of the Dutch Republic

The beginnings of Dutch world exploration and the foundation of the VOC

The Dutching of the Nautilus shell

Dutch Nautilus mounts and the Dutch Sea

The freedom of the seas

The formation and fate of the WIC

Guarding "free trade"

The Twelve Years' Truce

The denouement of the Republic and transition to monarchy

Delft and the shifting legacy of the "golden age"

3. Gathering the goods: Dutch still life painting and the end of the "golden age"

Dutch still life: defined by objects

Representing objects in Dutch still life

Pepper in still life and trade

Dutching still life

Tables

4. Dutch Batavia: an ideal Dutch city?

The founding of Batavia

The plan of Batavia

A Dutch city in the tropics

Dutch city planning principles in the seventeenth century

Hierarchy in Batavia

Ordering Batavia's population

Conclusion

5. Simplifying the past: Willemstad's historic and historicizing architecture

The founding of Willemstad and the WIC

The vernacular architecture of downtown Willemstad

The townhouse as Dutch Colonial architecture

The Curaʹaoan people

Tracing change over time

6. Conclusion: The "golden age" today

Works cited

Archives and databases

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Feb 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed January 3, 2025)

ISBN:

1-04-079622-2

1-003-70844-7

1-04-080114-5

90-485-6675-4

90-485-5158-7

9781003708445

OCLC:

1376300646