Title Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa

Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (297 pages) Series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700 Transculturalisms, 1400-1700. Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Constructing Knowledge of World and Self; Commodifying Knowledge and the Exotic; The Significance of Prints: Dissemination and Repetition; A Note on Terminology and Translations; Notes; 2 Negotiating Trade and Travel in North Holland; The Voorcompagniën; Publishers; Claesz's Early Pilot Guides; Dutch Voyages in Quarto; Humanist Scholars as Readers and Contributors; Notes; 3 The Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea by Pieter de Marees Early Dutch Expeditions to AfricaDe Marees' Ethnographic Contributions; The Process of Picturing; Notes; 4 Analogy and Anthropology; Cataloguing and Classifying; Essentializing Nations and Races: physis and ethos; Moral Control and Immoral Excess; Early Modern Ethnography and Ethnology in Europe; Familiar and Exotic; Notes; 5 To Inform and Delight; Moralizing African Men; Moralizing African Women; Literacy, Humanism, and Visual Precedents; Conclusions; Notes; 6 Emblematic Map Borders; Map Functions and Audiences; Antwerp Precedents; Ethnographic Decorative Borders Blaeu's Cartographic EthnologyRepetition; Notes; 7 Legacies; Michiel Colijn's Description; Joost Hartergszoon's Adaptation; The De Brys' Indiae Orientalis Pars VI; The Tarnished Golden Age; Notes; Epilogue; Note; Bibliography; Index Summary Using Pieter de Marees' Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602) as her main source material, author Elizabeth Sutton brings to bear approaches from the disciplines of art history and book history to explore the context in which De Marees' account was created. Since variations of the images and text were repeated in other European travel collections and decorated maps, Sutton is able to trace how the framing of text and image shaped the formation of knowledge that continued to be repeated and distilled in later European depictions of Africans. She reads the engravings in De Marees' account as a demonstration of the intertwining domains of the Dutch pictorial tradition, intellectual inquiry, and Dutch mercantilism. At the same time, by analyzing the marketing tactics of the publisher, Cornelis Claesz, this study illuminates how early modern epistemological processes were influenced by the commodification of knowledge. Sutton examines the book's construction and marketing to shed new light on the social milieus that shared interests in ethnography, trade, and travel. Exploring how the images and text function together, Sutton suggests that Dutch visual and intellectual traditions informed readers' choices for translating De Marees' text visually. Through the examination of early modern Dutch print culture, Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa expands the boundaries of our understanding of the European imperial enterprise Notes Print version record Subject Marees, Pieter de. Beschrijving en historisch verhaal van het Gouden Koninkrijk van Guinea -- Illustrations SUBJECT Beschrijving en historisch verhaal van het Gouden Koninkrijk van Guinea (Marees, Pieter de) fast Subject Africans in art. Prints, Dutch -- 16th century -- Themes, motives Prints, Dutch -- 17th century -- Themes, motives Publishers and publishing -- Netherlands -- History -- 16th century Publishers and publishing -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century Art and society -- Netherlands -- History -- 16th century Art and society -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century Knowledge, Sociology of. sociology of knowledge. Africans in art Art and society Knowledge, Sociology of Prints, Dutch -- Themes, motives Publishers and publishing Afrika Motiv Druckgrafik Afrikaner i konsten. Grafisk konst. Bokförläggare -- historia. Bokutgivning -- historia. Konst och samhälle. SUBJECT Africa -- In art Subject Africa Netherlands Niederlande Genre/Form Art History Illustrated works Form Electronic book Author Jones, Professor Ann Rosalind Singh, Professor Jyotsna Suzuki, Professor Mihoko ISBN 9781351569057 1351569058

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