Inhoudsopgave
With warm regards from foreign parts
Luc Devoldere | Chief Editor
Explore your Prison
From Ypres to Verdun
Not the memory, but the spectacle...
An Extract from Geert Mak's In Europe
Arrival & Departure
Travelling to and from the Low Countries
[Raf de Bruyn]
The Adventurous Endeavours of Joost Conijn
Potentialities of Autonomous Travel through Life
[Jellichje Reijnders]
Barefoot and on horseback to the Mongols, whom we call Tartars
The Mission of a Flemish monk
[Luc Devoldere]
From Turpan to Kashgar
The bus is not suitable for foreigners
An Extract from Adriaan van Dis' A Barbarian in China
Portrait of the Traveller with Burin and Printing Press
The Representation of Dutch Maritime Expansion
in the De Bry Collection of Voyages
[Michiel van Groesen]
From Africa to Africa
The Return of a Dead Traveller
An Extract from Frank Westerman's El Negro and Me
Out and About with Bruegel
[Manfred Sellink]
Christoph Fink's Travel Accounts
Aesthetics of the Contemporary Worldview
[Filip Luyckx]
Notices to Travellers
[Selected by Anton Korteweg]
A Road Less Travelled
The Road to Antwerp Beach - A Journey along the N1
[Derek Blyth]
Even at Home I am not a Tourist
[Filip Matthijs]
The Dutch Raise their Voices
[Gerard van Westerloo]
Perfectly Happy in Vinex-Land
[Marieke van Rooy]
Blood or Soil
A Stroll through Belgian Absurdistan
[Carl Devos]
The End of a War
National and Private Monuments Commemorating the Great War in Flanders
[Piet Chielens]
Self-Willed or Superfluous?
Art in Public Space in the Netherlands
[Ingeborg Walinga]
Borremans' Circus
[Patrick T. Murphy]
Hit the Road
Bands in Search of an Audience Abroad
[Lutgard Mutsaers]
Joost Swarte, Knight of the Clear Line
[Louis van Dievel]
The Tao of Literature
Life as it is, according to Patricia de Martelaere
[Frank Hellemans]
Two Extracts from The Unexpected Answer
by Patricia de Martelaere
Mystery on the March
On Dirk Braeckman's Photos
[Hans Aarsman]
Doing the Fosbury Flop
Gerrit Krol's Literary High-Jump
[Ad Zuiderent]
Two Poems and an Extract
by Gerrit Krol
One Only Has Oneself
Fernand Khnopff, a Belgian Dandy in European Symbolism
[Johan de Smet]
A Beacon for Europe
Emile Verhaeren 1855-1916
[Vic Nachtergaele]
Four Poems by Emile Verhaeren
Loud Chords and Calm Moments
Louis Andriessen, Composer
[Emile Wennekes]
Leeuwarden: Triumph and tragedy
[Peter Karstkarel]
Yes, But
Rembrandt as an Unstable Medium
[Gary Schwartz]
‘Nothing worthwhile ever happens, except maybe some acts of consolation’
Literature according to Herman Brusselmans
[Bart van der Straeten]
Two Extracts
by Hermans Brusselmans
s‘Cast off the names that others had applied’
On the Poet Gerrit Achterberg
[Peter de Bruijn]
Two Poems
by Gerrit Achterberg
The Unexpected Popularity of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
[Klaas van Berkel]
Such is our proud, though oft-diluted, Dutch heritage
An Extract from John Updike's A Letter to My Grandsons
Chronicle
Architecture
A Sea of Models
The Second International Architecture Biennial in Rotterdam
Cultural Policy
Forever Curious
The Mondriaan Foundation
‘We pay too much attention to ourselves’
The Netherlands and International Cultural Policy
Soundly Based, but not Set in Stone
In Search of a Canon to be Cherished
Dance and Theatre
Ben Benaouisse or the Art of Remembering
Language
Of Rabbits and Queens
The Hardship and Bliss of Learning Dutch
‘Good butter and good cheese is good English and good Frieze’
Frisian Language and Culture today
History
The Dutch Reformation Revisited
One Foot in America
Antwerp and the Emigrants of the Red Star Line
Literature
Clio Offside?
University of Groningen Opens Biographical Institute
Fate Decided Otherwise
Henk van Woerden (1947-2005)
Music
Never Sell Out
More than 25 Years of The Ex
The Listener's Contribution
Composing according to Joachim Brackx
Science
A Coffee-Cup Full of Helium
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926)
Society
A Truck Every Three Seconds
Antwerp and the Deurganckdok
Citizenship is the Highest Office
Job Cohen, ‘European Hero’
Visual Arts
The Passion of Creating
Christophe Coppens, Designer Artist
Harmony
The Conciliatory Figurativeness of Matthijs Röling
Three Museums Working in Harmony
The Vlaamsekunstcollectie Project
Short Takes
Contributors
Translators
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