"The articles in this yearbook, by British and American, Dutchand Flemish contributors, survey the living, contemporary culture of the Low Countries as well as their cultural heritage"--Foreword.
Contents:
A paradise for modern architecture -- Claus the Chameleon -- The threat of rapid language death -- Seven women poets from the Low Countries (Miriam Van hee, Elma van Haren, Anneke Brassinga, Anna Enquist, Christine D'haen, Eva Gerlach, Marieke Jonkman) -- The art of give and take -- The Dutch documentary -- The Low Countries do smell of manure, don't they? -- The painter and his surroundings -- Postmodernism in the literature of the Low Countries -- "I do not know how I shall turn out ..." -- Church and ideology in the Netheralnds -- Grounds form memory -- New fairy tales for the Low Countries -- Creations of earth and fire -- Huizinga and Geyl -- "O, this is a place!" -- Visiting professor -- The Mauritshuis -- Picturing Dutch culture -- Biotechnology in Flanders -- No longing for paradise -- Flemish tapestry -- Newton in the Netherlands -- Dutch painting -- Studying 'single Dutch' What next?! -- From first sight to insight -- New Amsterdam on the Hudson -- Warmth in cold stone -- An artist in remembering (A.F. Th. van der Heijden) -- An anatomy of Dutch cabaret -- From the message to the medium -- Architecture, cultural policy -- Cultural policy -- Cultural policy, film -- Film, history -- History, language -- Language -- Literature -- Literature, music -- Music, philosophy and science -- Philosophy and science, society -- Society -- Society, visual arts -- Visual arts -- Bibliography.
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