Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art

Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : 9781478060314
ISBN-13 : 147806031X
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Download or read book Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art written by Caroline Fowler and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art, Caroline Fowler examines the fundamental role of the transatlantic slave trade in the production and evolution of seventeenth-century Dutch art. Whereas the sixteenth-century image debates in Europe engaged with crises around the representation of divinity, Fowler argues that the rise of the transatlantic slave trade created a visual field of uncertainty around picturing the transformation of life into property. Fowler demonstrates how the emergence of landscape, maritime, and botanical painting were deeply intertwined with slavery’s economic expansion. Moreover, she considers how the development of one of the first art markets was inextricable from the trade in human lives as chattel property. Reading seventeenth-century legal theory, natural history, inventories, and political pamphlets alongside contemporary poetry, theory, and philosophy from Black feminism and the African diaspora, Fowler demonstrates that ideas about property, personhood, and citizenship were central to the oeuvres of artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Hercules Segers, Frans Post, Johannes Vermeer, and Maria Sibylla Merian and therefore inescapably within slavery’s grasp.


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