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DESCRIPTION:Claudia Swan will present at the seminar in Renaissance and Ear
 ly Modern Material Culture on Tuesday\, February 15\, at 6 pm. Her talk is
  entitled “The Dutch Colonial Imaginary.'Over the course of the first half
  of the seventeenth century\, the northern Netherlands secured independenc
 e from the Spanish crown and the nascent Dutch republic established its mi
 ght in global trade. Central to the political and cultural identity of the
  Dutch Republic were curious foreign goods the Dutch called “rarities.” Sw
 an's recent book on early modern Dutch investment in the exotic—Rarities o
 f these Lands. Art\, Trade\, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic (Princeto
 n\, 2021) explores how rarities were obtained\, exchanged\, stolen\, value
 d\, and collected\, tracing their global trajectories and considering thei
 r role within the politics of the new state. This lecture builds on that a
 ccount through an examination of power relations less explicitly operative
  within Dutch culture of the time: slavery\, Swan argues\, was an animatin
 g force of the Dutch colonial imaginary. The talk is structured in four pa
 rts\, which present depictions of Blackness\; observations on exotic shell
 s and labor\; a brief history of Dutch interest in ebony\; and\, to conclu
 de\, an example of an image—a map—that is as much the product of the Dutch
  colonial imaginary as it is a record of how conceptions of the imaginatio
 n figured into the visualization of racialized identity.  Claudia Swan is 
 the inaugural Mark Steinberg Weil Professor of Art History & Archaeology a
 t Washington University. Her principal scholarly commitment is to northern
  European art\, with a focus on the Netherlands in the seventeenth century
 . Swan’s work on early modern art and visual culture contributes to inters
 ections of art history\, history of science\, material culture studies\, a
 nd the history of global trade and politics. Publications within the past 
 decade include articles on seventeenth-century taste\, Dutch art\, trade\,
  and diplomacy in the global sphere\; a co-edited volume Image\, Imaginati
 on\, and Cognition. Medieval and Early Modern Theory and Practice\; and th
 e edited volume Tributes to David Freedberg. Image and Insight. Her monogr
 aph Rarities of These Lands. Art\, Trade\, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Repu
 blic (Princeton University Press\, 2021) was published this spring\, follo
 wed by the co-authored volume Conchophilia. Shells\, Art\, and Curiosity i
 n Early Modern Europe (Princeton University Press\, 2021).  This talk will
  be available on Zoom. A link will be circulated to registrants by 4 pm on
  the day of the event. This event will be live with automatic captions.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: The Dutch Colonial Imaginary
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