The Low Countries. Jaargang 3

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Publication

 

This third yearbook is published by the Flemish-Netherlands Foundation ‘Stichting Ons Erfdeel’, with the support of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (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 books 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 / C. Maeyaert-Cambien / C. Reedijk / Adriaan van der Staay / Adriaan Verhulst

 

Address of the Editorial Board and the Administration

 

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

tel. +32 56 41 12 01

fax +32 56 41 47 07

e-mail erfdeel@pophost.eunet.be

 

Head of Administration: Bernard Viaene Administrative Secretaries: Hans Verhaeghe and Johan Feys

 

Aims

 

With The Low Countries the editors and publisher aim to present to the English-speaking world the culture and society of the Dutch-speaking area which embraces both the Kingdom of the Netherlands and also Flanders, the northern part of the Kingdom of Belgium.

 

The articles in this yearbook 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 developments in Flanders and the Netherlands.

 

The culture of Flanders and the Netherlands is not an isolated phenomenon; its development over the centuries has been one of continuous interaction with the outside world. In consequence the yearbook also pays due attention to the centuries-old continuing cultural interplay between the Low Countries and the world beyond their borders.

 

By drawing attention to the diversity, vitality and international dimension of the culture of Flanders and the Netherlands, The Low Countries hopes to contribute to a lively dialogue between differing cultures.

 

issn 0779-5815

 

isbn 90-70831-69-4

 

nugi 601

 

Copyright © 1995 ‘Stichting Ons Erfdeel’

 

Printed by Die Keure, Bruges, Flanders, Belgium

 

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the prior permission of the copyright holder.

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The Low Countries

Next page: Louis Artan, The Sea at Blankenberge (detail). 1871. Canvas, 83.5 × 122.3 cm. Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent (Photo by H. Maertens).

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The Low Countries

Arts and Society in Flanders and the Netherlands

A Yearbook

 

1995-96

Published by the

Flemish-Netherlands Foundation ‘Stichting Ons Erfdeel’

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Editorial Board

 

Chief Editor: Jozef Deleu

 

Deputy Editors: Frits Niessen, Reinier Salverda

 

Secretary: Filip Matthijs

 

Members: Dirk van Assche, Anton Korteweg, Hans Vanacker

 

Design and Picture Editor: Kees Nieuwenhuijzen

 

Advisory Committee

 

Fred G.H. Bachrach, Twickenham, United Kingdom

E.M. Beekman, Amherst, ma, usa

André Brink, Cape Town, South Africa

James Brockway, The Hague, The Netherlands

Christopher Brown, London, United Kingdom

Patricia Carson, Ghent, Belgium

Jan Deloof, Zwevegem, Belgium

Theo D'haen, Leiden, The Netherlands

Bruce C. Donaldson, Melbourne, Australia

Amy Golahny, Williamsport, pa, usa

Jaap Harskamp, London, United Kingdom

Adrian van den Hoven, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Jonathan Israel, London, United Kingdom

E.H. Kossmann, Groningen, The Netherlands

André Lefevere, Austin, tx, usa

Frank Ligtvoet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Hans van Marle, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Martin Mooij, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Arnold J. Pomerans, Colchester, United Kingdom

Ethel Portnoy, The Hague, The Netherlands

Paul R. Sellin, Los Angeles, ca, usa

William Z. Shetter, Bloomington, in, usa

Johan P. Snapper, Berkeley, ca, usa

Kees Snoek, Auckland, New Zealand

Paul Vincent, London, United Kingdom

Leo Vroman, Brooklyn, ny, usa

John Willemse, Pretoria, South Africa

Michael J. Wintle, Hull, United Kingdom

Manfred Wolf, San Francisco, ca, usa

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Contents

10	Joke Linders
	The Richness of Imagination Children's Books in the Netherlands
21	Ludo Abicht
	The Jerusalem of the West Jews and Goyim in Antwerp
27	Joop Th.J. van den Berg
	From ‘Red and Black’ to ‘Red and Blue’ Twenty-Five Years of Dutch Politics
39	Frans Bosman and Kurt van Es
	Dutch Highest Drugs and Drugs Policy in the Netherlands
46	Pascal Lefèvre
	Fifty Years of Bob and Bobette
53	Wim de Poorter
	In Motion Animated Film in Flanders
62	Jaap Goedegebuure
	Marc Mulders, Heir to Tradition
68	Anton Korteweg and Frits Niessen
	Hardy Perennials of Dutch and Flemish Poetry
	Poems by Karel van de Woestijne, P.C. Boutens, J.H. Leopold, Richard Minne, Paul van Ostaijen, Willem Elsschot, H. Marsman, Martinus Nijhoff, P.N. van Eyck, J.C. Bloem, Jan van Nijlen, M. Vasalis, Leo Vroman, Jan Hanlo and Lucebert
76	Jan Berkouwer
	Jan Tinbergen, Economist and Visionary

 

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82	Kees Snoek
	The Delicacy of a Rain Forest About the Poetry of Leo Vroman
	Seven Poems by Leo Vroman
91	Leo Vroman
	Resting on Doubt
96	Eric Bracke
	Domestic Bliss and Excruciating Pain The Life and Art of Rik Wouters
105	Erwin Jans and Geert Opsomer
	Crossing the Borders Contemporary Theatre in the Low Countries
117	Paul Demets
	A General of Beauty The Work of Jan Fabre
126	Ine Rietstap
	Step by Step The Story of the Nederlands Dans Theater
133	Johan Kolsteeg
	The Melody Makers Contemporary Music in the Netherlands
138	Jan Rubinstein
	Forward into a New Era The Story of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
143	Hugo Brems
	‘Good and Bad Have Been Reduced to the Same Thing’ The Poetry of Charles Ducal
	Four Poems by Charles Ducal
148	Geert Bekaert
	Bob van Reeth and the Demands of Architecture
153	C.L. Temminck Groll
	Dutch Colonial Architecture and Town Planning History, Preservation and Present Use
163	Eddy Stols
	Flemish and Dutch Brazil The Story of a Missed Opportunity
172	S. Groenveld
	The Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Dutch Wars: Economic or Political Issues?
190	Christopher White
	Through Foreign Eyes Painters from the Low Countries in Seventeenth-Century England

 

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198	Fred G.H. Bachrach
	Turner's Holland Reflections after a Pioneering Exhibition in London
208	Jos Borré
	Looking for the Other Self The Work of Kristien Hemmerechts
	Extract from ‘Back’ by Kristien Hemmerechts
217	A.L. Sötemann
	Margriet de Moor's Defeat of Loneliness
	Extract from ‘Chosen Landscape’ by Margriet de Moor
225	Jan Kerkhofs
	Between Christendom and Christianity The Church in Flanders
233	Herman Pleij
	Reynard the Fox The Triumph of the Individual in a Beast Epic
	Extract from ‘Reynard the Fox’
240	Maurits Smeyers
	Flemish Miniatures for England
251	Dan Roodt
	The Poet in the Mixer The Work of Breyten Breytenbach
	Two Poems by Breyten Breytenbach
258	Herwig Todts
	Piecing the Scraps Together Roel D'Haese and his Sculptures
264	chronicle Table of Contents