The Low Countries. Jaargang 1

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This first yearbook includes articles on:

 

Recent architecture in Rotterdam

 

The Dutch documentary

 

The authors Hugo Claus, Guido Gezelle, Rutger Kopland, Cees Nooteboom, A.F.Th. van der Heijden and Paul van Ostaijen

 

Musical relations between England and Flanders

 

Contemporary dance

 

Seventeenth-century painting

 

Dutch studies in the Anglophone world

 

New Amsterdam

 

Environmental problems

 

The visual artists Mariene Dumas, Mondrian, Roger Raveel and José Vermeersch

 

Postmodernism in Dutch-language literature

 

Church and ideology

 

Belgian federalisation

 

The historians Johan Huizinga and Pieter Geyl

 

Biotechnology in Flanders

 

Dutch cabaret

 

Newton in the Netherlands

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Publication

 

This yearbook is published by the Flemish-Netherlands Foundation ‘Stichting Ons Erfdeel’, with the support of the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Cultural Affairs (Rijswijk) and the Flemish Ministry of Culture (Brussels). The Foundation ‘Stichting Ons Erfdeel’ also publishes the Dutch-language periodical Ons Erfdeel and the French-language periodical Septentrion, revue de culture néerlandaise, the bilingual yearbook De Franse Nederlanden - Les Pays-Bas Français and a series of booklets in different languages covering various aspects of the culture of the Low Countries.

 

The Board of Directors of ‘Stichting Ons Erfdeel’

 

President: Raf Renard

 

Vice-President: Philip Houben

 

Managing Director: Jozef Deleu

 

Directors: Herman Balthazar / H.W.J. Bosman / Jan Bosselaers / Hendrik Brugmans / Annemarie Deleu-Deblaere / Jan Desmyter / Vaast Leysen / Herman Liebaers / C. Reedijk / Michiel Vandekerckhove / A.J. van der Staay / Adriaan Verhulst

 

Address of the Editorial Board and the Administration

 

‘Stichting Ons Erfdeel’, Murissonstraat 260, 8931 Rekkem, Flanders, Belgium

tel. +32 (0) 56 41 12 01

fax +32 (0) 56 41 47 07

 

Head of Administration: Bernard Viaene

 

Administrative Secretaries: Hans Verhaeghe and Johan Feys

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Editorial Board

 

Chief Editor: Jozef Deleu

 

Deputy Editors: Frits Niessen, Reinier Salverda

 

Secretary: Filip Matthijs

 

Members: Theo Hermans, Anton Korteweg, Hans Vanacker, Dirk van Assche

 

Design and Picture Editor: Kees Nieuwenhuijzen

 

Advisory Committee

 

E.M. Beekman, Amherst, Massachusetts, usa

André Brink, Cape Town, South Africa

James Brockway, The Hague, The Netherlands

Patricia Carson, Ghent, Belgium

Jan Deloof, Zwevegem, Belgium

Theo D'haen, Leiden, The Netherlands

Bruce C. Donaldson, Melbourne, Australia

Jonathan Israel, London, United Kingdom

E.H. Kossmann, Groningen, The Netherlands

André Lefevere, Austin, Texas, usa

Frank Ligtvoet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Martin Mooij, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ethel Portnoy, The Hague, The Netherlands

Paul R. Sellin, Los Angeles, California, usa

William Z. Shetter, Bloomington, Indiana, usa

Johan P. Snapper, Berkeley, California, usa

C.H. Snoek, Auckland, New Zealand

Adrian van den Hoven, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Hans van Marle, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Paul Vincent, London, United Kingdom

John Willemse, Pretoria, South Africa

Michael J. Wintle, Hull, United Kingdom

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THE LOW COUNTRIES

ARTS AND SOCIETY IN FLANDERS AND THE NETHERLANDS A YEARBOOK

 

1993-94

Published by the Flemish-Netherlands Foundation ‘Stichting Ons Erfdeel’

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Contents

9	Jozef Deleu
	Foreword
10	Hans Ibelings
	A Paradise for Modern Architecture Recent Architecture in Rotterdam
17	Paul Claes
	Claus the Chameleon
	‘I'd like to sing you a song...’ by Hugo Claus
25	E.M. Uhlenbeck
	The Threat of Rapid Language Death A Recently Acknowledged Global Problem
32	Hugo Brems
	Seven Woman Poets from the Low Countries
	Poems by Miriam Van hee, Elma van Haren, Anneke Brassinga, Anna Enquist, Christine D'haen, Eva Gerlach and Marieke Jonkman
39	Ignace Bossuyt
	The Art of Give and Take Musical Relations between England and Flanders from the 15th to the 17th Centuries
51	Gerdin Linthorst
	The Dutch Documentary Social Conscience, Humanism and a Taste for Experiment
56	Pieter Leroy
	The Low Countries Do Smell of Manure, Don't They? Environmental Problems, Environmental Awareness and Environmental Policy in the Netherlands and Flanders

 

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64	Roland Jooris
	The Painter and his Surroundings The Work of Roger Raveel
69	Anne Marie Musschoot
	Postmodernism in the Literature of the Low Countries
75	Saskia Bak
	‘I do not know how I shall turn out...’ The Development of the Work of Mondrian, from Naturalism to Victory Boogie-Woogie
83	Walter Goddijn
	Church and Ideology in the Netherlands
90	E.M. Beekman
	Grounds for Memory Colonial Literature from the Former Dutch East Indies
100	Bianca Stigter
	New Fairy Tales for the Low Countries About Marlene Dumas, a South African Artist in the Netherlands
107	A. Teeuw
	Indonesia and the Netherlands A Renewed Interest
111	Ariejan Korteweg
	The Great Leap Forward Dance in the Low Countries: The Advantage of a Lack of Tradition
118	Manu Ruys
	Belgian Federalisation
124	Ludo Bekkers
	Creations of Earth and Fire The Ceramics of José Vermeersch
130	E.H. Kossmann
	Huizinga and Geyl A Portrait of Two Dutch Historians
137	Piet Couttenier
	‘O, this is a place!’ Aspects of the English World of Guido Gezelle
	‘The Evening and the Rose’ by Guido Gezelle
144	Cees Nooteboom
	Visiting Professor (with an essay by Frans de Rover)
153	Marjan van Zijtveld
	The Mauritshuis From City Palace to National Museum
158	Svetlana Alpers
	Picturing Dutch Culture

 

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166	Wim Daems
	Biotechnology in Flanders Big in the Microcosm of Cells and Molecules
172	Ad Zuiderent
	No Longing for Paradise The Poetry of Rutger Kopland
	Five Poems by Rutger Kopland
177	Erik Duverger
	Flemish Tapestry
186	K. van Berkel
	Newton in the Netherlands
192	Christopher Brown
	Dutch Painting A Personal View
204	Theo Hermans
	Studying ‘Single Dutch’? What Next?! Dutch Studies in the Anglophone World
212	Karel Porteman
	From First Sight to Insight The Emblem in the Low Countries
223	Charles Gehring
	New Amsterdam on the Hudson The Dutch Background of New York City
231	Gary Schwartz & Marten Jan Bok
	Warmth in Cold Stone The Architectural Paintings of Pieter Saenredam
239	Jaap Goedegebuure
	An Artist in Remembering The Work of A.F.Th. van der Heijden
	Extract from ‘Parents Falling’ by A.F.Th. van der Heijden
248	Jos Nijhof & Paul van der Plank
	An Anatomy of Dutch Cabaret
254	Paul Hadermann
	From the Message to the Medium The Poetic Evolution of Paul van Ostaijen
	Three Poems by Paul van Ostaijen
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