Inhoudsopgave
Iconoclasms
Foreword
Tabula Rasa
The Iconoclastic Fury in the Low Countries
Not a Church Tower in Sight
The Secularisation of the Netherlands
‘From ‘Do you believe in God?’ to ‘What makes your life meaningful?’
Unbelief in the Netherlands
The Silent Iconoclasm in Flanders
The Road from Enlightenment to Indifference
Unbelief in Flanders
How God Survived His Death in Books
New Life for Old Churches
Reusing Religious Buildings in the Netherlands
‘I'll Call You God, You Powers’
Fifteen Poems Selected by Jozef Deleu
Refurbishing the House of God
Adaptive Reuse of Religious Buildings in Flanders
Images of Christ
The Depiction of Christ in the Mayer van den Bergh Breviary
Other Words, Another Sound
New Liturgical Music in the Netherlands
'Twixt Heaven and Earth
The Madonna in Painting in the Low Countries
Christianity in Indonesia, Past and Present
How the Congo Was Converted
Belgian Missionary Work in Central Africa
Religious Identity and Americanisation
Dutch Settlements in North America
A Seething Cauldron
Dance in Brussels
Room for Everything
Photographs of Jacob Olie
In Pursuit of the Moment
George Hendrik Breitner, Painter and Photographer of a Lost Age
Poets Pick Things Up all over the World
The Poetry of Luuk Gruwez
Five Poems
by Luuk Gruwez
Flemish Furniture Design
Unstable Equilibrium
The Versatility of J. Bernlef
An Extract and Four Poems
by J. Bernlef
His Own Protagonist
The Work of Teun Hocks
Encounters and Recognitions
English Landscapists and Dutch Old Masters - Then and Now
No Victorian Disneyland
Bruges, the Past in the Present
A Great Minor Poet
The Poems of J.C. Bloem
Five Poems
by J.C. Bloem
Opting for What Does not yet Exist
The Art of Carel Visser
On Yeats' Footstool
The Poet Karel van de Woestijne
An Extract and Five Poems
by Karel van de Woestijne
Innocence Can Be Hell
The Art of Berlinde de Bruyckere
Books Should Be Both Comic and Painful
The Work of Arnon Grunberg
Extract from Phantom Pain
By Arnon Grunberg
Books in the Baron's House
The Renovation of the Meermanno-Westreenianum Museum
Paul Claes, a New Literary Wizard
An Extract and Four Poems
by Paul Claes
Simon Stevin, Flemish Tutor to a Dutch Prince
Johan Goudsblom: More than a Sociologist
Chronicle
Architecture
Dasein, Empathetic Architecture, or Poetry in Concrete?
The Architecture of Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem
Cultural Policy
A Temporary ‘Naturalisation’
Translators' Houses in Amsterdam and Leuven
The Bookshop of the World
Film and Theatre
Christ Recrucified
The Tegelen Passion Plays
How ‘Royal’ is the Royal Belgian Film Archive?
Where Angels Fear to Tread
The Discovery of Heaven
History
Selective Affinities
Anglo-Dutch Relations, 1780-1980
A Passionately Dutch English King
The Tercentenary of the Death of William III
The Commemoration of a Multinational
Four Hundred Years of the Dutch East India Company
Language
Languages in Competition
Literature
The Ageless Writings of Bart Moeyaert
Amsterdam, The Netherlands' Big Apple
The Middle Dutch Arthur in his Rightful Place at the Round Table
Music
Music of the People, for the People
Peter Benoit, a Hundred Years On
A Pioneer in Electronic Music The Tonal Art of Jan Boerman
The Queen and the Violin
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition
Philosophy and Science
Face to Face with the Dalton Terror
Philosophy between University and Journalism
No Half-Measures
Peter Piot Leads the Struggle against Aids
Society
Wim Kok, the Prime Minister from the Polders
The Lambermont Agreement: Another Step in Belgian State Reform
Visual Arts
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Master Drawer's Comeback
An Enduring Fascination
The Boom in Bosch
Flexible Materials with Backbone
The Duality of Sibyl Heijnen's Objects
Variations on the Ordinary
The Photographs of Rineke Dijkstra
‘A talent for art and a liking for mathematics’
The Sculpture of Norman Dilworth
Short takes
Bibliography of Dutch-Language Publications translated into English (traced January-November 21, 2001)
Contributors
Translators