Spaces of Belgian Culture
Description
Spaces of Belgian Culture explores Belgian cultural history through the lens of its spaces and spatial dynamics, situating the country as a unique cultural crossroads amid European modernity.
Positioning Belgium as a case study of nineteenth-century cultural transformation, the chapters in this book bring together insights from various disciplines. Topics include the negotiation of identity in public and private realms, the role of architecture and interiority, and Belgium's interaction with transnational influences. Contributions analyze spaces or spatial textures, such as the city and socio-cultural networks, the zoo, the artist studio, the cabaret, the embassy, associational buildings, the home, the museum, the exhibition space and the colonizer's house. These are revealing of the tensions between modernity, tradition, and the porous boundaries of Belgian culture.
The book contributes to broader discussions on spatiality, identity, and cultural hybridity and will be of interest to researchers in the fields of art history and media studies, literature and architecture.
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Dominique Bauer, Associate Professor at KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture
Marjan Sterckx, Professor at Ghent University, Department of Art History, Music and Theatre Sciences
Ilja Van Damme, Professor at the University of Antwerp, Department of History
Content
Table of contents
Introduction: Spaces of Belgian Culture: the Public, the Private, and Strategies of Identification (c. 1850-c. 1920)
Van Damme, Sterckx and Bauer
Spaces of Public Culture - Attraction and Education
- A Garden with A View: Visual Culture at the Antwerp Zoo
Leen Engelen
- Enlightened Spaces: Public Lecturing, the Projection Lantern and Society Life in Fin-de-siècle Belgium, c. 1900 - c. 1920
Margo Buelens-Terryn, Doris Blancquaert, & Ilja Van Damme
- Staging a Poet's Misery: Settings and Supporting Actors of Charles Baudelaire's Stay in Belgium (1864-1866)
Tom Verschaffel
4. Down the Rabbit Hole: The Hidden Spaces of Le Diable au Corps in Brussels (1892- 1898
Evelien Jonckheere & Davy Depelchin
Spaces of Private Culture - Intimacy and Memory
- Bonheur & Douleur: Alfred Stevens and the Ambivalent Depiction of Mothers in Domestic Settings
Apolline Malevez & Marjan Sterckx
- Representation of Fin-de-siècle Belgian Queer Spaces in Georges Eekhoud's Short Stories
Michael Rosenfeld
- Memory Space and Modern Temporality: Fernand Khnopff's Artist's Studio in Light of Rodenbach and Huysmans
Dominique Bauer
- Ensor's Souvenirs: Objects and their Meanings in the Artist's Late Still Lifes
Apolline Malevez
Spaces of Belgian Sociability - Identities and Nations
9. Musealisation and Meaning Making in the Studio of Constantin Meunier
Ulrike Müller
10. The Private Interior as Exhibition Space: The Catalogues of the 1880 National Exhibition in Brussels and Jules-Jacques Van Ysendyck (1836-1891)
Zsuzsanna Böröcz
11. Exporting National Identity Abroad? The Neo-Flemish Renaissance Castle in Beijing (1902-1909) as an Instrument of Communication and Legitimation
Charlotte Rottiers
12. Belgian Space in Exile in Interwar Britain in Interwar Britain: The Anglo-Belgian
Union and its "Friendly Competition" with the Anglo-Batavian Society
Ulrich Tiedau
13. Domestic Untranslatability: The Idea of the Colonizer's House in Colonial Indonesia and Congo at the Turn of the Century
Paoletta Holst, Johan Lagae & David Hutama Setiadi
Epilogue (Confirmed)
Laurence Brogniez & Tatiana Debroux
