The Low Countries. Jaargang 7

Inhoudsopgave

Shapes of Landscape Landscape and Space in the Low Countries Reflecting the Differences between North and South

Nature Teaching Art Painted Landscapes in the Low Countries

No Paradise without a Surveyor Landscape in Literature

Giving the Land Back to Nature Nature Development in the Netherlands

Lost Landscape?

Stills of Landscape

Turning Tides in Belgium An Account of a Ten-Year Political Quest

Three Faces of Dutch Animation

A Fascinating Malaise The Paintings of Luc Tuymans

‘I turn violence into art’ The Work of Armando

From Writer at his Own Expense to Public Phenomenon On the Work of J.J. Voskuil

Guido Gezelle, a Limpid Singer

Saintly and Generous Saint Nicholas and the Low Countries

The Painter of Silence Dirk Bouts Revisited

Rembrandt's Practical Approach to Italian Art Three Variations

The Struggle between Pallas and Mercury 400 Years of Relations between Japan and the Netherlands

‘Japonaiserie forever’ Vincent van Gogh and Japan

Brittle Wares Interaction between Oriental Porcelain and Delft Faience

The Jesuit Connection Relations between Flanders and China

‘Only in my poems can I dwell’ The Work of J. Slauerhoff

‘A short name on a small stone’ The Poetry of Christine D'haen

The Invisible Made Visible Godfried Vervisch and his Anti-Classical Self-Portraits

Robert Zandvliet's Vision

Dick Bruna, the Friendliest Maker of Picture Books in the Netherlands

Recycling Shakespeare in the Low Countries

‘We've got to start loving this country more’ Frank Martinus Arion and Dutch-Caribbean Literature

The Myth of Dutch Progressiveness The Netherlands as ‘Guide Land’

A Piece of Wood, a Knife and a Man's Genius The Woodcut Albums of Frans Masereel

A Big Kid The Work of Edgard Tytgat

Island-Hopping in the Musical Archipelago The Work of Peter Vermeersch

A Queen of Refined Manipulation The Work of Inez van Lamsweerde

Writing for Love's Sake The Work of Hadewijch

Hugo de Groot, a Passionate Thinker

Chronicle Architecture A Bulwark against the Water The Ir. D.F. Wouda Pumping Station

Cultural Policy On Being a Nothing and yet Being Something The Promotion of Dutch Culture in the United States

Bookcases and Computer Screens The Royal Library in The Hague

Film and Theatre ‘Film is a medium for women’ Patrice Toye and Rosie

Theatre Based on Commitment The New Realism of Trust

History The Last Medieval Emperor Charles V, the Man and the Myth

A Financial History of the Netherlands

Emotion at the Museum In Flanders Fields

The Strange Case of Windmills and Wooden Shoes Holland Mania in the United States

Language The History of Dutch Language Policy in Colonial Indonesia 1600-1950

Literature ‘And the whole world was ablaze’ Bart Moeyaert and Bare Hands

Translating for Enjoyment On Translating the Poetry of M. Vasalis

Dutch-Language Caribbean Voices in English

Snowed-in Poems The Poetry of Miriam Van hee

The Defiant Muse

The Captain of the Butterflies Cees Nooteboom's Poetry

Literature from the Low Countries in London

Music Emphatically Contemporary The Ictus Ensemble from Brussels

Science Hugo de Vries in America

Society Gender and the Politics of Office Work

Controversial Conclusions and Useful Recommendations The First 25 Years of the Social and Cultural Planning Office

Football without Frontiers Euro 2000 in the Low Countries

Visual Arts The Salve of Humour

Early Low Countries Painting in New York

The Mondrian Bible

Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age

Challenging Art History The Sculptures of Peter Rogiers

In Search of Unity in the Arts The Work of Theo van Doesburg

Short Takes

Bibliography of Dutch-Language Publications translated into English (traced in 1998)

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