On failure : error and defeat in Netherlandish art /

"This volume examines failure as a productive category in early modern Netherlandish art, demonstrating how error, risk, and defeat shaped artistic practice and cultural imagination. Rather than treating failure as a marginal or negative phenomenon, the contributions reveal its capacity to gene...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bussels, Stijn (Editor, Contributor), Grootenboer, Hanneke (Editor, Contributor), Keizer, Joost M. (Editor, Contributor), Seaman, Natasha T. (Editor, Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2026]
Series:	Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek ; d. 76.
Subjects:	Art > Netherlands > Technique. Art > Netherlands > Historiography. Art, Netherlandish. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) > Psychological aspects. Failure (Psychology) in art. Art > Pays-Bas > Historiographie. Échec dans l'art. Art > Pays-Bas > Technique. Art > Technique Art > Historiography Art, Netherlandish Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) > Psychological aspects Failure (Psychology) in art Netherlands

Table of Contents:

Introduction. The art of failure / Stijn Bussels, Hanneke Grootenboer, Joost Keizer and Natasha Seaman
When Jan van Scorel tried to build Rome in the sea / Braden Lee Scott
Remembering a failed rebellion : William of Orange and bladder stones at the Antwerp citadel / Koen Bulckens
Disorienting lines : Hendrick Goltzius and the art of failure / Laura Valterio and Clim Wijands
'Thus appears the Murderers' Bay...' : on the fateful Māori-European encounter recorded in 1642 by Isaac Gilsemans / Nicole Ganbold
De Wittiana : a response to political failure? Pieter de Graeff's attempts to rehabilitate Johan de Witt / Marianne Eekhout
Exploring gravity in an early modern sketchbook : force and failure / Marte Sophie Meessen
Building on demolition : planning for decline in the early nineteenth-century Dutch shrinking city / Minke Walda.