Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade

Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71409-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 77, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 875 g

Reihe: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

This richly illustrated collection of essays presents wide-ranging perspectives on the legacies of the Dutch Atlantic slave trade within and beyond museum walls. Contributions by curators, academics, activists, artists, and poets consider this history as reflected in the arts of Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Black diaspora more broadly, together illuminating how art museums may function as liberatory spaces working against systemic injustice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mallory, Sarah

Seidenstein, Joanna S

Burke, Rachel

Jackson, Kéla

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade

Sarah W. Mallory, Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Rachel Burke and Kéla Jackson

Part 1: In and beyond the Museum: Recent and Ongoing Undertakings in the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States

1 New Curatorial Practices? Representation, Continuation, and Change in Slavery Exhibitions

Anthony Bogues

2 Here: Black in Rembrandt’s Time and Slavery: Two Exhibitions about Invisible Histories

Maria Holtrop, Stephanie Archangel and Eveline Sint Nicolaas

3 Widening Circles: Collective Processing of Colonial Inheritances in Under Cover of Darkness

Carine Zaayman

4 A Litany for Homegoing

Toni Giselle Stuart

5 New Narratives at the Amsterdam Museum: Curating Natasja Kensmil among Dutch Masters

Imara Limon

6 The Elephant in the Room: Some Afterthoughts on the Golden Coach Exhibition at the Amsterdam Museum

Margriet Schavemaker

7 Implicating the Dutch Metropole: Visualizing the History of Slavery in the Netherlands

Nancy Jouwe

8 Debates about the Future National Museum of Slavery in the Netherlands: Attending to the Dutch Transatlantic and Indian Ocean Slave Trades

Pepijn Brandon

9 Past Made Present: Dutch Shadows in the Black Atlantic—the Making of an Exhibition at the RISD Museum

Jane’a Johnson

10 Slavery at Home and Overseas: Lessons from New England and the Netherlands

Justin M. Brown

11 Recovering Identity, Crowdsourcing Knowledge: Julien Hudson’s Portrait of a Young Woman in White

Natalia Ángeles Vieyra

12 Breaking Silence: Inclusivity in Dutch and Flemish Art

Jacquelyn N. Coutré, Adam Eaker, Michele L. Frederick, Alexandra Libby, Jessie Park and Diva Zumaya

13 Imagining Otherwise, an Ongoing Proposal

La Tanya S. Autry

Touchstones

14 Reggie Black, No Records, 2020

Meredith S. Horsford

15 Smuggle Gold and Cyclonic Hair: Transformative Power in the Work of Romauld Hazoumè

Kymberly S. Newberry

16 Titus Kaphar’s Shifting the Gaze

Joanna Sheers Seidenstein

17 Black Pete and Slavery

Joanna Sheers Seidenstein

18 Balthasar van den Bossche, A Painter’s Studio: the Kunstkammer and the Spectacle of Slavery

Sarah W. Mallory

Part 2: New Research in the Visual and Material Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade

19 Slavery and Still Life: the Historical and Ongoing Capitalist Legacies of Pronk Still Life Historiography

Diva Zumaya

20 Creating the Visual Memory of Slavery in Dutch Brazil: Frans Post and Albert Eckhout Exhibited

Carolina Monteiro and Mariana Françozo

21 The Plantation Worldscape of Colonial Dutch Brazil

Angela Vanhaelen

22 Spaces of Enslavement: Indigenous Resistance and Colonial Cartography

Carolyn Arena

23 Textiles and Trade in the Dutch Atlantic World: Albert Eckhout’s African Man and African Woman and Child

Carrie Anderson, with contributions from Marsely Kehoe

24 From Cartography to Marine Art: Ships, Seafaring, and Depictions of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade

Andrea C. Mosterman

25 Ebony & Old Masters: Blackness and Representation in the Dutch Republic

Claudia Swan

Touchstones

26 Caspar Barlaeus’s Rerum per octennium in Brasilia (1647)

Elizabeth Sutton

27 Jacob Marrel, Four Tulips, ca. 1637–45

Rachel Burke

28 Maria Sibylla Merian in Suriname

Olivia Dill

29 A Surinamese Calabash Bowl

Justin M. Brown

30 Andrés Sánchez Gallque, Portrait of Don Francisco de Arobe and His Sons Don Pedro and Don Domingo, 1599

Linda Mueller

31 A Silver Spoon

Cynthia Kok

32 Pinturas de Castas

Louisa Raitt

33 Beyond Sugar: Art History, Textiles, and Archival Accountability in a Digital World

Carrie Anderson and Marsely Kehoe

Part 3: Contemporary Practitioners

34 Monuments Made Flesh: Sojourner Truth and Nona Faustine on Performance and Place

Kéla Jackson

35 Crossing the Water: an Artist’s View

Remy Jungerman

36 History, Memory, and Legacy: Jamaica Kincaid, Rosana Paulino, and Cheryl Finley in Conversation

Condensed and edited by Kéla Jackson

37 Selected Poems

Ariana Benson

38 Slavepool

Eugene Lange

39 What Is a Legacy?

Sarah W. Mallory

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah W. Mallory is the Annette and Oscar de la Renta assistant curator of drawings and prints at The Morgan Library & Museum. She previously held positions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frick Collection, and Harvard Art Museums. She is completing her PhD in the history of art and architecture at Harvard University, where she focuses on seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, environmental histories, and colonial legacies.

Joanna Sheers Seidenstein is assistant curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She earned her PhD at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University in 2018 and held the Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellowship at the Harvard Art Museums from 2018 to 2022. Previous projects include Divine Encounter: Rembrandt’s Abraham and the Angels at The Frick Collection (2017) and Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape at the Harvard Art Museums (2022).

Rachel Burke is a PhD candidate in art history at Harvard University studying Henry “Box” Brown, who created a moving panorama following his escape from slavery in 1849. Her dissertation examines Brown’s use of popular nineteenth-century landscapes, tracing how antebellum representations of the American environment reinforced programs of white supremacy.

Kéla Jackson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Working at the intersection of art history, visual culture, and Black studies, her dissertation focuses on ruptural aesthetics—collage, constructed photography, and quilting—in contemporary visions of Black girlhood. Her writing has been published in Boston Art Review, Panorama Journal of American Art, as well as various exhibition catalogs including The Sculpture of William Edmondson: Tombstones, Garden Ornaments, and Stonework.