Een klein land dat de wereld bestormt. Het nieuwe Rijksmuseum en het Nederlandse koloniale verleden

A Small Country that takes the World by Storm: The New Rijksmuseum and the Dutch Colonial PastIn 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... Mehr ...