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Author/Creator:

Meador, Clifton , book artist

Contributors:

Appalachian State University > Department of Art , printer

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie [by Meador, C.]

Alternate Titles:

Spine title: VOC
Added title page title: Dutch East India Company

Subjects:

Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie

Meador, Clifton

Artists' books — North Carolina

Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie — In art

Rijksmuseum (Netherlands) — Influence

Colonial companies — Netherlands — Pictorial works

Netherlands — Social life and customs — 17th century — Pictorial works

Artists' books

Colonial companies

United States

Colonial companies--Netherlands--Pictorial works

Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie in art

Netherlands--Social life and customs--17th century--Pictorial works

Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)--Influence

Artists' books--North Carolina--Boone

Genres:

limited editions

artists' books (books)

Art

Artists' books

Pictorial works

General Notes:

Artists' book.
Title extends to verso of second title page.
Edition of 100 copies.
Images in this work were downloaded from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam digital library.
"In 1602, the first publicly-traded corporation in the world was chartered: the Dutch East India Company, or in Dutch, Vereenigde Oost Indische Compagnie, referred to as the VOC ... VOC was able to independently wage war, coin money, negotiate treaties, establish colonies, enslave people, massacre indigenous populations, and create spice monopolies"--Colophon.
"Printed and produced in the Graphic Communication Management studios of the Art Department of Appalachian State University."--Colophon.
By the artist: "My strategy was to color-separate the high-resolution files downloaded from the Rijksmuseum and then to recombine the images of these objects, to create representations that do not illustrate any one thing--an illusion of inchoate, but richly crafted, possessions. The introductory section of the book presents the charter of the VOC and reveals some of the conflict surrounding the Dutch presence in the East Indies in the form of contemporaneous title pages; subsequent sections of the book suggest the resultant wealth this colonial project produced. The final section of the book presents chimerical portraits--images of affluent Dutch people from the 17th century, recombined to make composite images of people who never existed--that are then overprinted with engravings from the 17th century that document some of the violence associated with the VOC."
Offset lithographed in fluorescent colors.
Bound in half publisher's cloth and handmade papers. Hand sewn and case-bound in illustrated boards.

Physical Description:

96 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 37 x 16 cm

Call Numbers:

N7433.4.M434 V47 2022

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 6800.01

OCLC Numbers:

1355860555