While the socio-economic and historical aspects of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) have been extensively documented and researched, the role of the VOC in visual culture and the arts has been relatively neglected. This authoritative volume addresses various aspects of cultural exchange between the Low Countries and Asia. Increased prosperity and the flood of imported goods from Asia had a huge influence on seventeenth-century Holland. To cite some examples: when the VOC spread its merchandise throughout the various regions of Asia, Chinese decorative motives became popular in Indonesia. After the lifting of the seventeenth-century ban on the import of Christian books to Japan, a wave of interest in Dutch culture hit the country, giving rise to Hollandmania, imitation of anything Dutch.Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia offers new insights into the world routes travelled by seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture, as well as the rise of Asian influence in the imagery of the Dutch Golden Age.
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Mediating Cultures / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and Michael North
- 1. Terms of Reception: Europeans and Persians and Each Other’s Art / Gary Schwartz
- 2. Reconfiguring the Northern European Print to Depict Sacred History at the Persian Court / Amy S. Landau
- 3. Dutch Cemeteries in South India / Martin Krieger
- 4. Coasts and Interiors of India: Early Modern Indo-Dutch Cross-Cultural Exchanges / Ranabir Chakravarti
- 5. Art and Material Culture in the Cape Colony and Batavia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Michael North
- 6. Indische Architecture in Indonesia / Peter J. M. Nas
- 7. The Cultural Dimension of the Dutch East India Company: Settlements in Dutch-Period Ceylon, 1700-1800 – With Special Reference to Galle / Lodewijk Wagenaar
- 8. European Artists in the Service of the Dutch East India Company / Marten Jan Bok
- 9. Scratching the Surface: The Impact of the Dutch on Artistic and Material Culture in Taiwan and China / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
- 10. The Dutch Presence in Japan: The VOC on Deshima and Its Impact on Japanese Culture / Matthi Forrer and Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato
- 11. From Optical Prints to Ukie to Ukiyoe: The Adoption and Adaptation of Western Linear Perspective in Japan / Matthi Forrer
- 12. Japan’s Encounters with the West through the VOC: Western Paintings and Their Appropriation in Japan / Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato
- 13. “To Capture Their Favor” : On Gift-Giving by the VOC / Cynthia Viallé
- 14. Circulating Art and Material Culture: A Model of Transcultural Mediation / Astrid Erll
- Illustration Credits
- Index
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