Johannes Decat: What lines cannot tell
Johannes Decat gives a voice to the tally marks in an old cash book for a plantation in Brazil.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
Johannes Decat gives a voice to the tally marks in an old cash book for a plantation in Brazil.
What does the cash book of a plantation sound like? What are the thoughts of a brush that was used for incantations? In what voice does an eighteenth-century contract speak? And what story is hidden in the doll's house of painter Jacob Appe...