Results for 'hanneke grootenboer'

1. Hanneke Grootenboer
2. Esmee Postma
3. Linda Nochlin

Op scherp

De magie van fotorealisme Eind jaren zestig ontstaat in Amerika een fascinerende kunststroming: fotorealisme. Jonge kunstenaars zetten zich af tegen de heersende mode van abstracte en conceptuele kunst. Tot in het kleinste detail leggen ze alledaagse voorwerpen en taferelen vast. Als bron voor hun enorme schilderijen gebruiken ze foto’s. Als een van de eersten maken zij zo de impact van beeldcultuur tot onderwerp van hun schilderkunst. Schilderijen van spiegelende etalageruiten, close-ups van glimmend gepoetste auto’s, neonreclames en typisch Amerikaanse interieurs. Schilderijen die zo gedetailleerd en levensecht zijn dat je bijna denkt dat het foto’s zijn. Maar welke verhalen gaan schuil achter deze verbazingwekkende werken? En hoe gaan hedendaagse kunstenaars om met die zo specifieke beeldtaal van deze kunststroming? In het boek Op scherp kijken we met een kritische blik naar fotorealisme. We breken de Amerikaanse canon van de witte, mannelijke kunstenaars van de eerste generatie open en vullen deze aan met vrouwelijke, Afro-Amerikaanse, West- en Oost-Europese kunstenaars. Net als de fotorealisten van het eerste uur, gebruiken zij de fotorealistische stijl om hun visie op de wereld uit te dragen. Op scherp viert de schoonheid en het vakmanschap van fotorealisme.

Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 76 (2026)

Stijn Bussels is Professor of Art History at the Leiden University. His research concentrates on visual culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century Low Countries. A recent publication is The Sublime in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic with Bram Van Oostveldt (2023). Hanneke Grootenboer is Professor of Early Modern Art and Visual Culture at the University of Amsterdam and a specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch art. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of art, philosophy and literature. Recent publications include The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking (Chicago University Press, 2021) and the co-authored Conchophilia: Shells, Art and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2021). Joost Keizer is Professor of Art History at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published on the relationship between art, nature, and history in Italian and Netherlandish culture, including Leonardo’s Paradox: Word and Image In the Making of Renaissance Culture and the co-edited Wetland. Shaping Environments in Netherlandish Art. Natasha Seaman is Professor of Art History at Rhode Island College. She has published on Gerrit van Honthorst, Jacob Backer, and the semiotics of money. Her next book, Hendrick ter Brugghen: Utrecht’s Subtle Artist, is forthcoming with Lund Humphries Press in 2026.

Breaking the Silence

Caroline Fowler is Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, and a lecturer in art history at Williams College.

Dutch Art in a Global Age

Exploring the impact and influence of global trade networks on 17th-century Dutch life and art The 17th century has long been considered a "golden age" for Dutch art, fueled by the Dutch Republic’s growth as an economic world power. Nourished by an innovative stock market and burgeoning global trade network, this vibrant economy not only provided artists with a rich context in which to make their art, but also directly influenced the art itself—in its subject matter, materials, meaning and interpretation. The genre scenes and still lifes that today seem quintessentially Dutch actually project a global vision, and often address the positive and negative aspects of economic and global expansion. Drawing on the world-renowned collection of Dutch paintings, works on paper, decorative arts and illustrated books at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this book offers a fresh look at 17th-century Dutch art, accompanied by authoritative essays that ask readers to consider the global context in which this work was made. Artists include: Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob van Ruisdael, Rachel Ruysch, Frans Hals, Judith Leyster, Gerrit van Honthorst, Maria Schalcken, Pieter Claesz, Nicolaes Maes, Jan van Huysum and Johannes Vermeer.

1. Hanneke Grootenboer

The Pensive Image

"What does it mean to say a painting thinks? The central claim of this invigorating book is not that a painting can show thought happening, as in depictions of melancholics musing, head on hand; nor that it can illustrate philosophical concepts. Nor does Hanneke Grootenboer want to argue that a painting is a way of working out a philosophical conundrum; nor even that it can prompt theorisation about the nature of reality, artifice and representation. She argues, instead, for something weirder–and more suggestive. . . . she asks: 'Do we, as viewers, find ourselves pondering these things, or is the painting as such pensive?' Grootenboer wants to affirm the latter."

1. Marisa Anne Bass
2. Anne Goldgar
3. Hanneke Grootenboer

Conchophilia

"In Conchophilia seven scholars dissect why Renaissance-era collectors braved maritime hazards to beachcomb. Finding the pearliest treasures at shorelines called for avoiding crocodiles, spiny urchins and ‘burning sea slime’. . . . Painters depicted shells, with names as wonderful as ‘precious wentletrap’ and ‘speckled episcopal miter,’ arrayed on banquet tables or in the hands of exulting deities. Metalsmiths set nautiluses on gold pedestals sculpted with mermaid and sea foam motifs. Collectors had favorite shells cemented onto grotto walls, sometimes in the bristly shapes of pine cones and artichokes."---Eve M. Kahn, New York Times