Gilded Splendor
In Gilded Splendor: Iconography of the pendules au Noir in the Parnassia Collection, art historians Alette Fleischer (Ph.D.) and Bart Krieger (M.A.) unravel the hidden messages of the Black clocks (the so-called Au Bon Sauvage clocks) of the Parnassia Collection and categorize them in a novel way.
They have aimed to contextualize the pendulum clocks au Noir in the historic timeframe they were created in and displayed (ca 1790-1830) and uncovered some of their iconographic secrets with links to the transatlantic slavetrade, Eurocentrism and the French Enlightenment. Moreover, the two art historians ponder on the question if we, as an emancipated society, are allowed and able to enjoy these pendulum clocks today.
Alette Fleischer and Bart Krieger, Gilded Splendor: Iconography of the pendules au Noir in the Parnassia Collection. With a Preface by Felix de Rooy. LM Publishers; to be published in October 2022.
Op 28 oktober 2022 staat de boeklancering gepland, met opening van de tentoonstelling (Museumplein 4, Amsterdam) en symposium over zwarte figuren op 18de-eeuwse klokken; de niet zo stille getuigen van de trans-Atlantische slavernij. (Aanvang onder voorbehoud: 12:00 uur.)
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