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Art Fallen from Heaven

Modern Balinese Sculpture

By Koos van Brakel

Art Fallen from Heaven offers a new perspective on the origin of modern Balinese sculpture in the 1930s and an overview of its evolution from 1932 to 1973. Thoroughly illustrated with photos of traditional and...

Common Ground

Dutch-South African Architectural Exchanges, 1902–1961

By Nicholas J. Clarke, Roger C. Fisher, and Marieke C. Kuipers

The richness and diversity of Dutch contributions to the built environment of South Africa remain little-known in the study of twentieth-century architectural history. Between 1902 and 1961 more than seventy Dutch-born émigré architects were active...

Re-visualizing Slavery

Visual Sources about Slavery in Asia

By Nancy Jouwe, Wim Manuhutu, Matthias van Rossum, Merve Tosun

In Re-visualizing Slavery, historians, heritage specialists, and cultural scientists shed new light on the history of slavery in Asia by centering visual sources—specifically, Dutch paintings, watercolors and drawings from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. The...

Landmarks from a Bygone Era

Life and Work of Ed. Cuypers and Hulswit-Fermont, 1897-1927

By Obbe H. Norbruis

Eduard Cuypers (1859–1927) was one of the most celebrated architects in the Netherlands in the 1890s. Known for much of the development of the time throughout Indonesia, yet working from Amsterdam, Cuypers and his firm...

Architecture from the Indonesian Past

Life and Work of Fermont-Cuypers, 1927-1957

By Obbe H. Norbruis

In Architecture from the Indonesian Past, Obbe H. Norbruis tells the story of a celebrated Dutch architecture firm, its unique buildings, and their designers. Fermont-Cuypers designed many buildings significant in Indonesia’s history beginning in 1927...

Plantation Houses of Curaçao

Jewels of the Past

By Ellen Spijkstra

Curaçao’s historic plantation houses showcase unique architecture that resulted from the use of European, especially Dutch, building styles adapted to local tropical construction methods and available building materials. With the arrival of the oil industry...

Ng’ambo Atlas

Zanzibar

By Iga Perzyna, Antoni Folkers

Ng’ambo is the lesser known "other side” of Zanzibar Town. During the British Protectorate the area was designated as the Native Quarters; today it is set to become the new city center of Zanzibar’s capital....

Three Caribbean Artists

Jose Maria Capricorne, Nelson Carrilho, Philippe Zanolino

By Susan Wilczak, Marianne De Tolentino, and Monique van Herksen

Caribbean art is strong, passionate and filled with contradictions, as are the lives of the three men profiled inThree Caribbean Artists. A rare glimpse is offered into the lives of three different artists, their upbringing,...

The Art of Collecting

East Indies Paintings

By Bea Brommer

Painters were fascinated by the tropical landscapes, picturesque villages and markets, and especially the diverse inhabitants of the Dutch East Indies. In the first half of the 20th century a large group of European artists...

The Kwee Family of Ciledug

Family, Status, and Modernity in Colonial Java

By Peter Post. With May Ling Thio

This book is based upon a unique private collection of photographs and home movies of one Peranakan Chinese elite family, the Kwee family from Ciledug, owners of the sugar factory Djatipiring. It aims to bring...

Indonesian Splendour / Indische pracht

Four Centuries of Fascination for the Flora of Indonesia / Vier eeuwen fascinatie voor de flora van Indonesie

By Dennis A-Tjak and Bea Brommer

Bilingual English / Dutch

Indonesia’s flora—with more than 45,000 plant varieties—is one of the most abundant in the world. Photographer Dennis A-Tjak has been making a name for himself as the portraitist of old flower varieties...

Lotty's Bench

The Persecution of the Jews of Amsterdam Remembered

By Gerben Post

August 26, 1945: Lotty Veffer arrived in Amsterdam. She was the only member of her family to have survived the war. Her parents and younger sister Carla had been gassed in Sobibor. There was no...

Flowers from Universe

Textiles of Java

By Alit Djajasoebrata

Java's original textile art is the perfect medium for telling stories of ancient Javanese culture.

Flowers from Universe: Textiles of Java is based, first and foremost, on the memories and associations of Alit Djajasoebrata. Ajajasoebrata grew...

Natural History and Ecology of Suriname

By Bart De Dijn

Natural History and Ecology of Suriname offers a unique overview of the remarkable nature of this diverse and beautiful country. The book showcases more than 200 fascinating tropical plant and animal species, making it an...

Kas di Shon

Plantation Houses on Curacao: Past and Present

By Sandra van Noord

Driving through Curacao’s landscapes, the old plantation houses are visible from afar. The houses speak to us of a past long gone. A past in which plantations, homegrown food, cattle breeding, salt production, and slavery...

Fendry Ekel

Entries

By Astrid Honold

Fendry Ekel: Entries is a comprehensive monograph, with contributions by several international art historians, looking at the painter’s recent work on canvas from 2011 to 2015.

The first chapter, “Chess Problems: On the Paintings of Fendry...

Indonesian Textiles at the Tropenmuseum

By I. C. van Hout

The Tropenmuseum Amsterdam houses about 12,000 textile objects that were collected over a period of 160 years. The majority of the objects were amassed during the time that Indonesia was a Dutch colony, the former...

Dutch New York Histories

Connecting African, Native American and Slavery Heritage

By Dienke Hondius, Nancy Jouwe, Dineke Stam, and Jennifer Tosch

Did you know that the famous African American abolitionist Sojourner Truth was enslaved and spoke Dutch until the age of ten? Or that the Dutch brought enslaved Africans to North America in the merchant ships...

Lianas of the Guianas

Guide to the Woody Climbers in the Tropical Forests of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana

By Bruce Hoffman and Sofie Ruysschaert. With Mark J. Plotkin, Frits van Troon, and Joerie Zwerts

Lianas (woody vines) are iconic symbols of tropical forests around the world. These plants use the energetically expensive investment of trees in woody stems to gain relatively inexpensive access to the light-rich canopy. Lianas contribute...

Timber Trees of Suriname

By Chequita R. Bhikhi

This guide focuses on the identification of Surinamese trees, based on field, vegetative, floristic, and wood characteristics. It includes botanical descriptions, wood descriptions, illustrations and photos of one hundred Surinamese commercial timber tree species, potential...