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Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie
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Dutch East India Company
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[Boone, North Carolina?]: [Studio of Exhaustion], [2022]
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- Offset lithographed in fluorescent colors.
- Title extends to verso of second title page.
- Artists' book.
- 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.
- 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."
- Edition of 100 copies.
- "Printed and produced in the Graphic Communication Management studios of the Art Department of Appalachian State University."--Colophon.
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