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DESCRIPTION:Michael North will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Wedne
 sday March 23 at noon. His talk is entitled “Collecting European and Asian
  Art Objects in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Batavia.'After John Ma
 urice was named stadholder of Brazil by the West India Company\, he took t
 he painters Frans Post and Albert Eeckhout with him on his Brazilian trave
 ls as members of his entourage of learned men. Over the next six years the
  painters recorded what they saw—Post painted mainly landscapes and Eeckho
 ut people and their work—thus making an important contribution to contempo
 rary Europe’s knowledge of Brazil. Compared with this series of paintings\
 , the visual documents of the Dutch presence in Asia have\, apart from the
  graphical reproduction of Batavia\, found less attention\, although the D
 utch East India Company (VOC) has long attracted scholarship. Yet while th
 ere are important publications on the trade\, shipping\, institutional org
 anization\, and administration of the Dutch East India Company\, the role 
 of the VOC in cultural history\, and especially in the history of visual a
 nd material culture\, has not yet attracted comparable interest. In this t
 alk\, North will discuss the role and function of art in the settlements a
 nd factories of the VOC in Asia. He will also explore the many forms of cu
 ltural exchange that occurred across Asia and offer insights into the medi
 ating processes between the different ethnicities and cultures in Batavia.
 Michael North is Professor and Chair of Modern History and Director of the
  Graduate Program on Baltic Borderlands at Ernst Moritz Arndt University G
 reifswald. This winter he was a visiting Professor in the Department of Hi
 story at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His publications in
 clude Art and Commerce in The Dutch Golden Age (1997)\, Material Delight a
 nd the Joy of Living: Cultural Consumption in Germany in the Age of Enligh
 tenment (2008)\, The Expansion of Europe (2012)\, and he is editor of seve
 ral more publications\, including Art Markets in Europe (1998)\, Artistic 
 and Cultural Exchanges between Europe and Asia\, 1400–1900 (2010)\, and Me
 diating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia (together with Thom
 as DaCosta Kaufmann 2014). His most recent book\, The Baltic: A History\, 
 was published this past year by Harvard University Press.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Collecting European and Asian Art Objects in 
 Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Batavia
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