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NKJ 75 Table of Contents Available, 2025 Issue to be published July 23

The Dutch Americas: Art Histories of the Atlantic World

Editors: Aaron M. Hyman, Stephanie Porras, Natasha Seaman, and Edward H. Wouk
The Dutch West India Company – active in Brazil, the Caribbean, North America, and West Africa – has received little art historical attention compared to the considerable scholarship about the Dutch East India Company. Terming the network of outposts connected by their activities the “Dutch Americas”, this issue of the NKJ seeks to account for the material histories undergirded by the activities managed by the Dutch in the Atlantic world. The volume offers new narratives for familiar artists like Frans Post and Albert Eckhout; interrogates the relationship of understudied geographies and corresponding trade goods to art produced in this period; and integrates perspectives of Indigenous and African makers and viewers.

Contents:

Aaron M. Hyman and Stephanie Porras
Towards an art history of the Dutch Americas

Margot Steurbaut
The glazing of Beverwijck’s First Dutch Reformed Church: Colonial power visualized

Jeroen van den Hurk
Dutch Reformed churches in Colonial North America: To ‘promote godliness in every way’

Carolina Monteiro
All things created: Slavery, African knowledge, and material culture in Dutch Brazil (1630-1654)

Adam Eaker
A private Atlantic: The Ter Barch family albums as colonial archive

Carrie Anderson
Amsterdam, Accra, America: Glass beads, pearls, and ersatz gems in the Dutch Atlantic

Hannah Prescott
A crown made of brass: Dutch piracy and commodifying West African identity in the seventeenth-century transatlantic slave trade

Margaux Shraiman
Commercialising Eden: Frans Post’s drawings of the Fortunate Isles

Angela Vanhaelen
Displacement: Picturing captive women in Brazil

Michiel van Groesen
Allegory and allegiance: The Dutch Americas in the imagination of Bonaventura and Gillis Peeters

Rebecca Zorach
Making and unmaking worlds with tëmakwe

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