Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia / / ed. by Michael North, Thomas Kaufmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Bok, Marten Jan,; Chakravarti, Ranabir,; Erll, Astrid,; Forrer, Matthi,; Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta,; Kobayashi-Sato, Yoriko,; Krieger, Martin,; Landau, Amy S.,; Nas, Peter J. M.,; North, Michael,; Schwartz, Gary,; Viallé, Cynthia,; Wagenaar, Lodewijk,
• HerausgeberIn: Kaufmann, Thomas,; North, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 200 color plates

Scholars have extensively documented the historical and socioeconomic impact of the Dutch East India Company. They have paid much less attention to the company’s significant influence on Asian art and visual culture. Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia addresses this imbalance with a wide range of contributions covering such topics as Dutch and Chinese art in colonial and indigenous households; the rise of Hollandmania in Japan; and the Dutch painters who worked at the court of the Persian shahs. Together, the contributors shed new light on seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture—and the company that spread it across Asia.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Mediating Cultures -- 1. Terms of Reception. Europeans and Persians and Each Other’s Art -- 2. Reconfiguring the Northern European Print to Depict Sacred History at the Persian Court -- 3. Dutch Cemeteries in South India -- 4. Coasts and Interiors of India. Early Modern Indo-Dutch Cross-Cultural Exchanges -- 5. Art and Material Culture in the Cape Colony and Batavia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 6. Indische Architecture in Indonesia -- 7. The Cultural Dimension of the Dutch East India Company. Settlements in Dutch-Period Ceylon, 1700-1800 – With Special Reference to Galle -- 8. European Artists in the Service of the Dutch East India Company -- 9. Scratching the Surface. The Impact of the Dutch on Artistic and Material Culture in Taiwan and China -- 10. The Dutch Presence in Japan. The VOC on Deshima and Its Impact on Japanese Culture -- 11. From Optical Prints to Ukie to Ukiyoe. The Adoption and Adaptation of Western Linear Perspective in Japan -- 12. Japan’s Encounters with the West through the VOC. Western Paintings and Their Appropriation in Japan -- 13. “To Capture Their Favor”. On Gift-Giving by the VOC -- 14. Circulating Art and Material Culture. A Model of Transcultural Mediation -- Illustration Credits -- Index