The Low Countries. Jaargang 2

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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 Welfare, Health 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 / C. Maeyaert-Cambien / C. Reedijk / Adriaan van der Staay / Michiel Vandekerckhove / 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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The Low Countries

Next page: Jacob van Ruisdael, The Mill at Wijk (detail). c.1670. Canvas, 83 × 101 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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THE LOW COUNTRIES

ARTS AND SOCIETY IN FLANDERS AND THE NETHERLANDS A YEARBOOK

 

1994-95

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

 

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

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

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

C.H. Snoek, Auckland, New Zealand

Paul Vincent, London, United Kingdom

John Willemse, Pretoria, South Africa

Michael J. Wintle, Hull, United Kingdom

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Contents

10	Geert van Istendael
	Brussels, City of the Coming Century
18	Henk van Gelder
	‘I like Being Naughty!’ The Work of Annie M.G. Schmidt
	Three Poems by Annie M.G. Schmidt
25	Anton Korteweg
	Five Times Two Picture-Poems
	Poems by E. du Perron, Lenze L. Bouwers, Pierre Kemp, Rutger Kopland, Roland Jooris, Albert Verwey, Willem van Toorn, Ed Leeflang and Hans Faverey
33	Gerdin Linthorst
	Between Theatre and Cinema The Films of Alex van Warmerdam
37	Dirk de Geest
	‘Read me in full or not at all’ The Poetry of Leonard Nolens
	Four Poems by Leonard Nolens
43	Wiep van Bunge
	Spinoza and the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic
52	H.M. Dupuis
	Euthanasia in the Netherlands Facts and Moral Arguments
59	Deborah Jowitt
	Adventuress in the Thickets of Postmodernism A Reflection on the Work of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
63	Cyrille Offermans
	‘Nothing helps’ The Poems of Hans Faverey
	Six Poems by Hans Faverey

 

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70	Frits van Oostrom
	Middle Dutch Literature as a Mirror of European Culture
81	Lauran Toorians
	‘The finest painter in the whole Christian world’ Hans Memling and His Art
87	Paul Depondt
	The Unfinished Work of Art The Paintings of René Daniëls
92	August Willemsen
	Babel behind the Dikes Living in the Bijlmermeer
98	David A. Pinder
	Myth and Reality in the Human Geography of the Netherlands
108	Pieter Leroy
	The Wadden Sea: A Special Area - Specially Protected?
114	Sarah Hart
	Gardening in the Netherlands
119	Jan van Hove
	A Park for Modern Art The Middelheim Open-Air Sculpture Museum in Antwerp
125	Pierre H. Dubois
	‘An Utrecht lady's charms’ Belle van Zuylen / Isabelle de Charrière
131	Paul de Wispelaere
	Writing as an Act of Revolt and Emancipation The Work of Monika van Paemel
	Extract from ‘The First Stone’ by Monika van Paemel
139	Ton J. Broos
	Desert Island Dutch Imaginary Voyages, Adventures and Robinsonades in the Low Countries
148	Anne Marie Musschoot
	The Art of Evocation The Symbolist Movement in Belgium
156	Lydia M.A. Schoonbaert
	James Ensor, Pioneer of Modern European Art
168	Aart van Zoest
	A Master of Word and Image Marten Toonder and the Bumble Comic Strips
	Extract from ‘The Top Dogs’ by Marten Toonder

 

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175	Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.
	Woman in Blue Reading a Letter An Approach to Viewing Vermeer
181	Ilse Kuijken
	A Naïve Engineer Panamarenko's Art
186	Connie Kristel
	‘A sacred duty’ The Holocaust in Dutch Historiography
195	D.H. Schram
	An Unfinished Chapter The Second World War and the Holocaust in Dutch Literature
204	Rudi van der Paardt
	A Unity of Opposites The Paradoxical Oeuvre of Harry Mulisch
	Extract from ‘The Assault’ by Harry Mulisch
210	Marc Peire
	Performing Early Music in the Low Countries
215	José Boyens
	Ger van Elk Was Here
223	Paul Vermeulen
	The Terrible Beauty of the Twentieth Century A Portrait of Rem Koolhaas
229	Els de Bens
	From Gazettiers to Newspaper Groups The Press in Flanders
236	Pierre Delsaerdt
	Gold Leather and Lead Letters Antwerp's Plantin-Moretus Museum
	‘Le bonheur de ce monde’ by Christophe Plantin
244	Steven Jacobs
	‘Like a doctor, without either love or loathing’ The Work of Henry van de Velde
251	Max Nord
	The Netherlands Antilles and Surinam, Treasure-Chests of Dutch-Language Literature
258	Pieter C. Ritsema van Eck
	The Art of Glass
264	Chronicle