Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures

Expanding on a major public program of April 2021, this volume 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. Front Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Illustrations and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade Part 1 In and beyond the Museum: Recent and Ongoing Undertakings in the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States Chapter 1 New Curatorial Practices? Representation, Continuation, and Change in Slavery Exhibitions Chapter 2 Here: Black in Rembrandt’s Time and Slavery: Two Exhibitions about Invisible Histories Chapter 3 Widening Circles: Collective Processing of Colonial Inheritances in Under Cover of Darkness Chapter 4 A Litany for Homegoing Chapter 5 New Narratives at the Amsterdam Museum: Curating Natasja Kensmil among Dutch Masters Chapter 6 The Elephant in the Room: Some Afterthoughts on the Golden Coach Exhibition at the Amsterdam Museum Chapter 7 Implicating the Dutch Metropole: Visualizing the History of Slavery in the Netherlands Chapter 8 Debates about the Future National Museum of Slavery in the Netherlands: Attending to the Dutch Transatlantic and Indian Ocean Slave Trades Chapter 9 Past Made Present: Dutch Shadows in the Black Atlantic—the Making of an Exhibition at the RISD Museum Chapter 10 Slavery at Home and Overseas: Lessons from New England and the Netherlands Chapter 11 Recovering Identity, Crowdsourcing Knowledge: Julien Hudson’s Portrait of a Young Woman in White Chapter 12 Breaking Silence: Inclusivity in Dutch and Flemish Art Chapter 13 Imagining Otherwise, an Ongoing Proposal Touchstones Chapter 14 Reggie Black, No Records, 2020 Chapter 15 Smuggle Gold and Cyclonic Hair: Transformative Power in the Work of Romuald Hazoumè Chapter 16 Titus Kaphar’s Shifting the Gaze Chapter 17 Black Pete and Slavery Chapter 18 Balthasar van den Bossche, A Painter’s Studio: the Kunstkammer and the Spectacle of Slavery Part 2 New Research in the Visual and Material Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade Chapter 19 Slavery and Still Life: the Historical and Ongoing Capitalist Legacies of Pronk Still Life Historiography Chapter 20 Creating the Visual Memory of Slavery in Dutch Brazil: Frans Post and Albert Eckhout Exhibited Chapter 21 The Plantation Worldscape of Colonial Dutch Brazil Chapter 22 Spaces of Enslavement: Indigenous Resistance and Colonial Cartography Chapter 23 Textiles and Trade in the Dutch Atlantic World: Albert Eckhout’s African Man and African Woman and Child Chapter 24 From Cartography to Marine Art: Ships, Seafaring, and Depictions of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade Chapter 25 Ebony & Old Masters: Blackness and Representation in the Dutch Republic Touchstones Chapter 26 Caspar Barlaeus’s Rerum per octennium in Brasilia (1647) Chapter 27 Jacob Marrel, Four Tulips, ca. 1637–45 Chapter 28 Maria Sibylla Merian in Suriname Chapter 29 A Surinamese Calabash Bowl Chapter 30 Andrés Sánchez Gallque, Portrait of Don Francisco de Arobe and His Sons Don Pedro and Don Domingo, 1599 Chapter 31 A Silver Spoon Chapter 32 Pinturas de Castas Chapter 33 Beyond Sugar: Art History, Textiles, and Archival Accountability in a Digital World Part 3 Contemporary Practitioners Chapter 34 Monuments Made Flesh: Sojourner Truth and Nona Faustine on Performance and Place Chapter 35 Crossing the Water: An Artist’s View Chapter 36 History, Memory, and Legacy: Jamaica Kincaid, Rosana Paulino, and Cheryl Finley in Conversation Chapter 37 Selected Poems Chapter 38 Slavepool Chapter 39 What Is a Legacy? Art beyond Euphemism Bibliography Index Back Cover