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The Low Countries : arts and society in Flanders and the Netherlands.

Title

The Low Countries : arts and society in Flanders and the Netherlands. 25 / chief editor, Luc Devoldere.

Publication

Rekkem, Flanders, Belgium : Flemish-Dutch cultural institution = Ons Erfdeel vzw, 2017.
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Description

315 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

The low countries' is a yearbook which aims to inform the English-speaking world about the culture of Flanders and the Netherlands. The articles survey the living, contemporary culture of the Low Countries as well as their cultural heritage. In its words and pictures 'The Low Countries' provides information about literature and the arts, but also about broad social and historical development in Flanders and the Netherlands.

Series Statement

Low countries yearbook, 0779-5815 ; 2017/25

Uniform Title

The low countries yearbook ; 2017/25.

Alternative Title

Arts and society in Flanders and the Netherlands
TLC : The Low Countries

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

'Be realistic. Demand the impossible' : The ambiguous heritage of the sixties / Luc Devoldere -- An era of early globalisation : The 1960s in the Low Countries / Geert Buelens -- The search for lost authority : The 1960s--again / Cyrille Offermans -- Revolt of the student : 1969 versus 2015 / Casper Thomas -- Surviving changing times : The singer-songwriter Boudewijn de Groot / Wim Chielens -- The price of freedom : On the sexual revolution / Beatrijs Ritsema -- From ice-block action to peanut butter floor : Belgian and Dutch pop art since the 1960s / Marc Holthof -- Church bells are still ringing. But the minarets? : Secularisation in Flanders / Patrick Loobuyck -- A feverish decade : The religious heritage of the 1960s in the Netherlands / Ger Groot -- From ownership to usage : The 1960s' legacy of the sharing economy / Tom Christiaens -- 'Beneath the paving stones of the beach' : A small anthology from and about the sixties -- The importance of De Stijl : An international unity in life, art and culture (1917-2017) / Lut Pil -- The Indo author Tjalie Robinson : Pioneer of a multiracial identity in the American sixties / Jeroen Dewulf -- The secret of the royal Concertgebouw orchestra / Judith van der Wel -- Manneken Pis or the subversion of a water pipe / Geert van Istendael -- Characters in search of an author : Maria Stahlie's Engagement / Kees 't Hart -- A Victorian 'arbiter elegantiae' : The paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema / Luc Devoldere -- The most industrious of all centuries : New perspectives on the nineteenth century / Marita Mathijsen -- A wedding of words : Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes resisted / Wim D'haveloose -- On duality and on painting as sculpture (and sculpture as painting) : The visual work of Lili Dujourie / Joris D'hooghe -- The bluebird of Ghent : One of Europe's hidden gems? / Tomas Vanheste -- Fiction is always non-fiction : The oeuvre o Jan Brokken / Jeroen Vullings -- An extract from De Kozakkentuin (The Cossak Garden) / Jan Brokken -- What you seen is not what you get : The architectural fiction of Filip Dujardin / Dirk Leyman -- Mapping climate change : Adopting a macho or modest approach? / Pieter Leroy -- The oldest museum in the Netherlands : Arts and sciences at Teylers in Haarlem / Ilja Veldman -- The fierce talent of an unpolished chronicler : Dimitri Verhulst's prose / Elsbeth Etty -- The national DNA : boardroom portraits by Taco Anema / Tineke Reijnders -- Flanders Fields, 1917--A crucial year -- 'Making the personal political' : Art by Hans van Houwelingen in the public domain / David Stroband -- The measure of our exile : On the city essays of Guy Vaes / Philip Mosley -- Choreographer of letters, servant of text, illustrator : Gert Dooreman fights banality / Dirk Leyman -- Leeuwarden-Fryslân 2018 : An exceptional European capital of culture / Rudi Wester -- Longing for perfection : The reed turtle by Michael Dudok de Wit / Jelle Schot -- Breaking free from expected patterns : Fien Troch / Ivo de Kock -- Before she became Mata Hari : Newly discovered letters by Margaretha Zelle / Reinier Salverda -- 'The only friend of the Indians' : Restoring the reputation of Father Pieter-Jan de Smet / Karl van den Broek -- 500 years old : The 'Collegium Trilingue' in Leuven / Luc Devoldere -- Occupied city : Paul van Ostaijen on the map of modernism / Jane Fenoulhet -- Start early and keep going : Flanders and the Netherlands at the Frankfurt Book Fair / Maarten Dessing -- An ingenious 'exercice de style' : The evenings by Gerard Reve / Paul Binding 'Writing with such freshness and agility' : A well-chosen selection of Dutch short stories / Stefanie van Gemert -- From weekly to monthly : Vrij Nederland / Rob Hartmans -- A double talent with a double personality : Jaap van Zweden / Emanuel Overbeeke -- Jazz legend 'between a smile and a tear' : Toots Thielemans (1922-2016) / Dirk Van Assche -- A modern troubadour : Jozef van Wissem and his lute / Dirk Steenhaut -- Lutherans in the Low COuntries : self-imposed thresholds and Calvinist Clout / Guido Marnef -- A theatre icon from the Lowlands : International appreciation for Ivo Van Hove / Jos Nijhof -- Light and balance : Museum Voorlinden / Eric Rinckout -- Rocky Mountain landscapes, vast distances and mysterious valleys : Hercules Segers and his 'Printed Paintings' / Ilja Veldman -- Olivier Schrauwen : The first true internationalist of Flemish comics / Gert Meesters.

Call Number

JFE 17-6810

ISBN

9789079705276
9079705276

OCLC

974847609

Title

The Low Countries : arts and society in Flanders and the Netherlands. 25 / chief editor, Luc Devoldere.

Publisher

Rekkem, Flanders, Belgium : Flemish-Dutch cultural institution = Ons Erfdeel vzw, 2017.

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Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Low countries yearbook, 0779-5815 ; 2017/25

The low countries yearbook ; 2017/25.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Devoldere, Luc, 1956-

Ons Erfdeel vzw, publisher.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-6810

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