Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science
Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century
Series: Studies in Early Modernity in The Netherlands;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 December 2025
- ISBN 9781041180074
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages302 pages
- Size 246x174 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
At once collector, botanist, reader, artist, and patron, Agnes Block is best described as a cultural producer. This book seeks to write Block and her contributions into the art and cultural history of the seventeenth-century Netherlands, highlighting the need for and advantages of a multifaceted approach to research on early modern women.
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At once collector, botanist, reader, artist, and patron, Agnes Block is best described as a cultural producer. A member of an influential network in her lifetime, today she remains a largely obscure figure. The socioeconomic and political barriers faced by early modern women, together with a male-dominated tradition in art history, have meant that too few stories of women?s roles in the creation, production, and consumption of art have reached us. This book seeks to write Block and her contributions into the art and cultural history of the seventeenth-century Netherlands, highlighting the need for and advantages of a multifaceted approach to research on early modern women. Examining Block?s achievements, relationships, and objects reveals a woman who was independent, knowledgeable, self-aware, and not above self-promotion. Though her gender brought few opportunities and many barriers, Agnes Block succeeded in fashioning herself as Flora Batava, a liefhebber at the intersection of art and science.
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Acknowledgements, List of Figures and Photographic Credits, Introduction, Chapter 1. Vijverhof and the Pursuit of Nature, Chapter 2. Vijverhof in Context, Chapter 3. Vijverhof as a Space of Knowledge Creation, Exchange, and Relationships, Chapter 4. Becoming Flora Batava, Chapter 5. Flora Batava in Context, Chapter 6. The Bloemenboek and Block's Watercolours: Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science, Chapter 7. The Bloemenboek as a Meeting Place and Visual Manifestation of Agnes Block's Artistic Network, Appendix A, Bibliography
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