Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 75 (2025): The Dutch Americas: Art Histories of the Atlantic World

Book info: Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 75 (2025): The Dutch Americas: Art Histories of the Atlantic World (Hardcover, 276 pages) – Brill, 2025. Language: English.

The Dutch West India Company – active in Brazil, the Caribbean, North America, and West Africa – has received little art historical attention compared to the considerable scholarship about the Dutch East India Company. Terming the network of outposts connected by their activities the “Dutch Americas”, this volume seeks to account for the material histories undergirded by the activities managed by the Dutch in the Atlantic world. The volume offers new narratives for familiar artists such as Frans Post and Albert Eckhout; interrogates the relationship of understudied geographies and corresponding trade goods to art produced in this period; and integrates perspectives of Indigenous and African makers and viewers. Contributors: Carrie Anderson, Adam Eaker, Aaron M. Hyman, Carolina Monteiro, Stephanie Porras, Hannah Prescott, Margaux Shraiman, Margot Steurbaut, Jeroen van den Hurk, Michiel van Groesen, Angela Vanhaelen, Edward Wouk, and Rebecca Zorach. The online version of this volume is available in Open Access.