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Jean Delville
This book is the first full-length study of the art and writings of Jean Delville. As a member of the younger generation that emerged during the end of the nineteenth century, he was a dynamic leader of a group of avant-garde artists who sought to establish a new school of Idealist Art in Belgium. He was one of the most talented painters of his generation, producing a vast body of works that, in both scale and technical accomplishment, is unsurpassed amongst his contemporaries. In his extensive writings in contemporary journals and books, he pursued a singular vision for the purpose of art to serve as a vehicle for social change, as well as to inspire individuals to be drawn to a higher, spiritual reality. Delvilles thinking is heavily indebted to the hermetic and esoteric philosophy that was widely popular at the time, and his paintings, poetry and writings reformulate the main tenets of this tradition in a contemporary context. In this regard, his aesthetic and artistic goals are similar, if not identical, to those found in the writings and art of Kandinsky and Mondrian during the early twentieth century.
L'aventure flamande de la Revue belge
Cet ouvrage renouvelle l'étude traditionnelle des littératures en Belgique, en explorant les contacts «intra-belges» durant l'entre-deux-guerres. Comment ces multiples contacts ont-ils influencé, notamment à travers la question de la traduction, le développement des langues, des littératures, des cultures néerlandophones et francophones? Comment ont-ils contribué à la construction d'une identité nationale dans une zone géopolitique multilingue à un moment-clé de son évolution linguistico-politique? Le lecteur trouvera, en outre, de précieuses informations sur Cyriel Buysse, André De Ridder ou Felix Timmermans ainsi que sur l'auteur des Fables de Pitje Schramouille, Roger Kervyn de Marcke ten Driesche, qui joua un rôle important dans cette aventure menée entre autres par Paul Tschoffen et Pierre Goemaere. La Belgique de l'entre-deux-guerres s'y révèle un monde global avant la lettre. Un cas exemplaire de dynamique littéraire dans une zone stratégique de l'Europe. Un plaidoyer et un défi pour des études comparatistes intranationales.
14/18 – Rupture or Continuity
The impact of the Great War and its aftermath on Belgian artistic life World War I had a major effect on Belgian visual arts. German occupation, the horror at the battlefield and the experience of exile led to multiple narratives and artistic expressions by Belgian artists during and after the war. Belgian interbellum art is extremely vibrant and diverse. 14/18 – Rupture or Continuity takes a look at Belgian artistic life in the years around the First World War and how it was affected by this event. The Great War was a catalyst of artistic oppositions, leading on the one hand to a Belgian avant-garde that explored new forms and styles, while continuing to uphold a more traditional and established art on the other. Whereas the war experience consolidated an already present style for some artists, for others it constituted a revolution leading to new artistic adventures. The collection of essays in the present book highlights these contrasting facets of Belgian art in its rich historical context during the early 20th century.
James Ensor
Edited by Anna Swinbourne. Text by Anna Swinbourne, Susan Canning, Michel Draguet, Robert Hoozee, Laurence Madeline, Jane Panetta, Herwig Todts.
De Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België
Eindelijk wordt de boeiende geschiedenis van een van België's meest prestigieuze musea te boek gesteld. Het hoogtepunt van de festiviteiten rond het 200-jarig bestaan van de Musea. Drie jaar archiefstudie samengevat in een schitterend omvangrijk werk, met talrijke illustraties van de Musea en haar collectie. Een must voor elke kunstliefhebber. De Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België hebben hun 200-jarig bestaan met luister gevierd. De verschillende activiteiten in dit kader in 2001 en 2002 waren voornamelijk gericht op de collecties van de Musea. Het hoogtepunt van de festiviteiten in maart 2003 is het ideale moment om de eerste gedetailleerde studie te publiceren over de geschiedenis van deze Musea zelf.
Florence, Berlin and Beyond: Late Nineteenth-Century Art Markets and their Social Networks
On the basis of extensive archival research, the essays in this volume examine the minutiae of object transaction in the late nineteenth-century art market within its social network and broader historical context.
New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904" (Report of the New York State Commission) by DeLancey M. Ellis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Male Bonds in Nineteenth-Century Art
Masculinities in nineteenth-century art through the lens of gender and queer history Male bonds were omnipresent in nineteenth-century European artistic scenes, impacting the creation, presentation, and reception of art in decisive ways. Men’s lives and careers bore the marks of their relations with other men. Yet, such male bonds are seldom acknowledged for what they are: gendered and historically determined social constructs. This volume shines a critical light on male homosociality in the arts of the long nineteenth century by combining art history with the insights of gender and queer history. From this interdisciplinary perspective, the contributing authors present case studies of men’s relationships in a variety of contexts, which range from the Hungarian Reform Age to the Belgian fin de siècle. As a whole, the book offers a historicizing survey of the male bonds that underpinned nineteenth-century art and a thought-provoking reflection on its theoretical and methodological implications.
