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- Title
Een klein land dat de wereld bestormt: Het nieuwe Rijksmuseum en het Nederlandse koloniale verleden.
- Authors
BLOEMBERGEN, MARIEKE; EICKHOFF, MARTIJN
- Abstract
In this essay Marieke Bloembergen and Martijn Eickhoff analyse the ways ‘history' and ‘art' have been integrated in the new Rijksmuseum's colonial sections. They argue that – in the selection and presentation of objects – the history of the Museum's collections and recent historiography on colonialism have been subordinated to art-historical connoisseurship, and to the idea that objects can evoke an understanding of the past in themselves. Thus the colonial sections follow predominantly the frameworks and storylines from the nineteenth century. This, while the same collection could have shown how the Netherlands – today, and in colonial times – is part of a complex world that might generate the need for univocal ‘national' clarities, but that in the end only gains from a combination of curiosity, self-reflection and space for others.
- Subjects
RIJKSMUSEUM (Netherlands); DUTCH colonies; EXHIBITIONS
- Publication
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2014, Vol 129, Issue 1, p156
- ISSN
0165-0505
- Publication type
Exhibition Review
- DOI
10.18352/bmgn-lchr.9444