The Low Countries. Jaargang 1

 

Inhoudsopgave

Foreword

A Paradise for Modern Architecture Recent Architecture in Rotterdam

Claus the Chameleon

The Threat of Rapid Language Death A Recently Acknowledged Global Problem

Seven Woman Poets from the Low Countries

The Art of Give and Take Musical Relations between England and Flanders from the 15th to the 17th Centuries

The Dutch Documentary Social Conscience, Humanism and a Taste for Experiment

The Low Countries Do Smell of Manure, Don't They? Environmental Problems, Environmental Awareness and Environmental Policy in the Netherlands and Flanders

The Painter and his Surroundings The Work of Roger Raveel

Postmodernism in the Literature of the Low Countries

‘I do not know how I shall turn out,...’ The Development of the Work of Mondrian, from Naturalism to Victory Boogie-Woogie

Church and Ideology in the Netherlands

Grounds for Memory Colonial Literature from the Former Dutch East Indies

New Fairy Tales for the Low Countries About Marlene Dumas, a South African Artist in the Netherlands

Indonesia and the Netherlands A Renewed Interest

The Great Leap Forward Dance in the Low Countries: the Advantage of a Lack of Tradition

Belgian Federalisation

Creations of Earth and Fire The Ceramics of José Vermeersch

Huizinga and Geyl A Portrait of Two Dutch Historians

‘O, this is a place!’ Aspects of the English World of Guido Gezelle

Visiting Professor by Cees Nooteboom

The Mauritshuis From City Palace to National Museum

Picturing Dutch Culture

Biotechnology in Flanders Big in the Microcosm of Cells and Molecules

No Longing for Paradise The Poetry of Rutger Kopland

Flemish Tapestry

Newton in the Netherlands

Dutch Painting A Personal View

Studying ‘Single Dutch’? What Next?! Dutch Studies in the Anglophone World

From First Sight to Insight The Emblem in the Low Countries

New Amsterdam on the Hudson The Dutch Background of New York City

Warmth in Cold Stone The Architectural Paintings of Pieter Saenredam

An Artist in Remembering The Work of A.F.Th. van der Heijden

An Anatomy of Dutch Cabaret

From the Message to the Medium The Poetic Evolution of Paul van Ostaijen

Chronicle Architecture Rietveld Revisited

Henry van de Velde, a European Artist

The Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp

Cultural Policy The Dutch Language Union

The Social and Cultural Planning Office A Barometer of Dutch Well-being

The Promotion of Translation in the Netherlands and Flanders

Writers in Residence

Dutch Arts An Introduction to Culture in the Netherlands

The Netherlands and Flanders at the Frankfurter Buchmesse

Antwerp Cultural Capital of Europe 1993

Film Back to Basics Paul Verhoeven's Instinct for Success

Daens, or Flanders in the Year 1900

History The Flemish Movement

Digging into Bruges's Past

Language Van Dale, a Concept of Excellence

The Certificate of Dutch as a Foreign Language Not such a Bad Idea

Literature Mulisch's Intellectual Challenge

Poetry International Rotterdam

‘Freedom was the priest riding past on his bicycle with his cassock flapping in the wind.’ Lieve Joris and Back to the Congo

Keeping Up J. Bernlef's Driftwood House

Willem Elsschot Villa des Roses

Court and Culture

A Crown for Christine D'haen

A Love Affair

Music Gaudeamus

Philosophy and Science Leo Apostel In the Tradition of the Enlightenment

Ad Peperzak Philosophy as Dialogue and Quest.

Research at the Free University of Brussels A Breakthrough in Assisted Fertilization

Society Elsevier and Reed A Marriage of Giants

Flanders An Englishman's Experience

20 Years of Opzij

Dutch Catholics on Women and the Priesthood

Half a Century of Trouw

Radio Netherlands World Service

Publishing in the Low Countries

Visual Arts Peter van Straaten Drawn from Life

Rudi Fuchs Grabs his Chance

The Ninth Documenta and its Director, Jan Hoet

Paleis Lange Voorhout

Panamarenko 30 Years of Thinking about Space

Flemish Art Symbolism to Expressionism

Old Masters from the Low Countries in American Collections

Jan Dibbets In the Tradition of the Dutch Light

Splendours of Flanders Flemish Art in Cambridge

Benoît's Smile A Minimal Registration of the Nonsensical

Bibliography of Dutch Publications translated into English (1991 and 1992)

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