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Opacity : blackness and the art of the Dutch Republic / Angela Vanhaelen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vanhaelen, Angela, author.
- Series:
- Africanas.
- Africanas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painting, Dutch--17th century.
- Painting, Dutch.
- Black people in art.
- Slavery in art.
- Black people--Netherlands--17th century--Portraits.
- Black people.
- Black people--Brazil--History--17th century--Portraits.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 192 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Examines seventeenth-century Dutch domestic scenes and portraits alongside images of trading forts, markets, and plantations in West Africa and Brazil. Explores connections between Dutch artistic practices and the transatlantic slavery economy, proposing visual approaches that challenge the equation of Blackness with enslavement"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1: Homeliness, Unhomeliness, and Homeplaces. Vermeer’s Secrets ; Sovereignty and Non-sovereignty
- Part 2: Beyond Description. Displacement
- Part 3: Necropastoral Landscapes. Plantation Worldscape ; Inventing at the Edge of Visibility
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Vanhaelen, Angela. Opacity.
- ISBN:
- 9780271100661
- 0-271-10066-4
- OCLC:
- 1567025272
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