The Low Countries. Jaargang 5

Inhoudsopgave

Antwerp, World Port and Provincial City

Money and Excrement The Psychology of Capital and the Marketplace in Pieter Bruegel the Elder's ‘Dulle Griet’

Toleration and Tolerance in the Netherlands

Pandora's Box Political Culture in Belgium

Three Countries in One Kingdom The Netherlands Antilles and the Paradox of Independence

The Low Countries on the Road Travel Writing in Flanders and the Netherlands

The Low Countries through British Eyes in Ages Past

Maps for Eternity Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Cartography in the Low Countries

The King is Dead, Long Live the King The Uses of Reality in the Prose of Walter van den Broeck

Extract from Letter to Baudouin by Walter van den Broeck

In Search of Self New Prose Writing in Dutch after 1985

Five Extracts

Fresh Food Ten Young Poets from Flanders and the Netherlands

A Brief History of Dutch Tiles

Exploring the Limits of the Familiar The Art of Guido Geelen

The dna of Art The Ceramic Work of Tjok Dessauvage

From Y Mañana? to Manneken Pis Thirty Years of Flemish Filmmaking

Are the Programmes Really Doing It? Television in the Low Countries

David v. Goliath Fashion from Flanders

Official Anarchy Dutch Graphic Design

The Vanitas Piece in Dutch and Flemish Seventeenth-Century Painting

A Museum of Museums The Story of the Teyler Museum

Bridging Two Cultures The Story of the Huygens Family

A Poem by Constantine Huygens On the Frontispiece of Cornflowers

Reality and Art in the Work of Jan Dibbets and Johannes Vermeer

A Master of Everyday Life The Work of Constant Permeke

A Race Apart... The Flandriens and the Golden Age of Flemish Cycling

‘Ah, the comfort of a comparison’ The Poetry of Herman de Coninck

Five Poems by Herman de Coninck

‘An order, within which there's room for chaos’ The Poetry of M. Vasalis

Seven Poems by M. Vasalis

Paintings with an Inner Dislocation Magic Realism in the Netherlands

The Poetry of a Futuristic City Object-Maker and Artist Jeroen Henneman

Flemish Comic Strips Today

Architecture without Qualities The Designs of Stéphane Beel

From Dutch Student to London Schoolmaster The Literary Work of Gerrit van de Linde

Three Poems by The Schoolmaster

Chronicle Architecture Continuity and Change Herman Hertzberger's Recent Architecture

Cultural Policy Strolling through Flanders, Past and Present

Dutch Books in London Libraries

Film and Theatre ‘I always put my actors first’ The Films of Frans Weisz

The Netherlands Theatre Institute Restyled

Dance in Flanders

‘Big black holes with the glittering of diamonds’ Theatre according to Ivo van Hove

History St Anna's Chapel in Antwerp

Chivalric and Urban Culture in the Low Countries during the Late Middle Ages

The Utrecht Psalter A Unique and Precious Ninth-Century Book

An Overview and a Remembering A New History of the Low Countries

Language Europe, Dutch and the Dutch Language Union Taking the Bull by the Horns

A Decade of Dutch Studies in Leiden

Literature Nescio, a Great Author of a Small Oeuvre

Johan Snapper and Vantage Points A Festschrift for ‘eine bunte Eminenz’

Harry Mulisch's The Discovery of Heaven An International Success

Anne Frank and After

The TLS Vondel Translation Prize

Music The Royal Carillon School in Mechelen Chimes from Flanders

The Beau Hunks ‘The best thing from Holland since tulips’

Philosophy Max Wildiers, Theologian and Cultural Philosopher

Society The Memoirs of Aletta Jacobs A Modest Testimony

Dutch American Voices

Visual Arts Small, Incomplete but Charming The Museum of Decorative Art in Ghent

The Jan van Goyen Quartercentenary and Britain

Rubens' Landscapes The Private Works of a Public Artist

Simply Marblelous On Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Two World Press Photo Prizes for Stephan Vanfleteren

Panorama Mesdag A Dutch Mega-Painting

The Ghent Altarpiece A Great Miniature

A New Encyclopedia of Dutch Art

Bibliography of Dutch-Language Publications translated in English (traced in 1996)

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