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Willem de Rooij - Dirk Valkenburg.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Fatah-Black, Karwan.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Valkenburg, Dirk, 1675-1721.
Colonization in art.
Slavery in art.
Local Subjects:
Valkenburg, Dirk, 1675-1721.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (602 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2026.
Summary:
Amsterdam painter Dirk Valkenburg (1675-1721) created early depictions of Indigenous and enslaved people on Surinamese sugar plantations, as well as ornate hunting still lifes and portraits of colonial elites.
Contents:
Intro
Table of Contents
Foreword
Bart Rutten
Designing Difference
Willem de Rooij and Karwan Fatah-Black
ESSAYS
Life and Work
Dirk Valkenburg: A Painter in Amsterdam and Suriname
Mark Ponte
The Rebellion at Palmeneribo
Frank Dragtenstein
The Standardized Production of Dirk Valkenburg's Trophy Still Lifes
Julie Hartkamp
Dirk Valkenburg's Hunting Still Lifes in a Colonial Context
Maurice Saß
Dirk Valkenburg as a Portrait Painter: Education and Network
Sabine Craft-Giepmans
Appraisal
The History of Renaming and Reinterpreting Dirk Valkenburg's Gathering of Enslaved People on One of Jonas Witsen's Plantations in Suriname
Rebecca Parker Brienen
The Market Appreciation and Provenance of Dirk Valkenburg's Oeuvre
Matthies Klink
Tropics
Histories and Historicities: Beyond the Picture Frame
Renzo S. Duin, Philip Dikland, Agir Axwijk
Traumascapes, or When Dirk Valkenburg's Landscape Paintings Are Seen from the Perspective of the Subaltern
Renzo S. Duin and Agir Axwijk
Slavery as an Aquatic Still Life
Alex van Stipriaan
Meta Race Play andHistorical Rescue
Will Furtado Fredo
Visual Culture
Dirk Valkenburg's Coconuts
Benjamin Schmidt
Edenic Tropics and Decadent Humanity
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Labouring Bodies: Dirk Valkenburg's Gathering of Enslaved People on One of Jonas Witsen's Plantations in Suriname in Context
Sarah Thomas
Afterword
The Meaning of a Flag
Karin Amatmoekrim
CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ
Introduction
Game and Hunting Scenes
Animal Scenes
Fruit Still Lifes
Works Made in Suriname
Portraits
Copies after Lost Portraits
Dirk Valkenburg's Estate Inventory: A Transcription
Bibliography
Archives
Databases
Author Biographies
Index
INSTALLATION VIEWS
List of Exhibited Works.
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ISBN:
90-485-7463-3
OCLC:
1574328589

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