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Rebuilding Story Worlds
A collaboration between Belgian artist Francois Schuiten and French writer Benoit Peeters, The Obscure Cities is one of the few comics series to achieve massive popularity while remaining highly experimental in form and content. Set in a parallel world, full of architecturally distinctive city-states, The Obscure Cities also represents one of the most impressive pieces of world-building in any form of literature.Rebuilding Story Worlds offers the first full-length study of this seminal series, exploring both the artistic traditions from which it emerges and the innovative ways it plays with genre, gender, and urban space. Comics scholar Jan Baetens examines how Schuiten's work as an architectural designer informs the series' concerns with the preservation of historic buildings. He also includes an original interview with Peeters, which reveals how poststructuralist critical theory influenced their construction of a rhizomatic fictional world, one which has made space for fan contributions through the Alta Plana website.Synthesizing cutting-edge approaches from both literary and visual studies, Rebuilding Story Worlds will give readers a new appreciation for both the aesthetic ingenuity of The Obscure Cities and its nuanced conception of politics.
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The case of Elisabeth De Saedeleer (1902-1972): The influence of Welsh hospitality in the Great War on Belgian Modernist interior design
At the beginning of the Great War in August 1914 Belgium was a neutral country. The German invasion came as a shock and German atrocities were so extreme that vast masses of the Belgian population left their homes and fled to France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. Altogether more than 150,000 Belgians, of whom approximately 300 were artists of all sorts, stayed for a shorter or longer period in Britain during the War. The many refugees caused chaos, especially in the first months of the war after the surprise attack of the Germans. But, however chaotic it might have been, the British press spoke of a peaceful invasion. The Belgians were in general not seen as a threat, since at that time it was clear that their stay would be temporary. This article traces the history of one Belgium family during this period: that of Elisabeth de Saedeleer, the daughter of the prominent artist Valerius de Saedeleer (1867-1941). [Revised Publication Abstract]
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Jan Van Eyck : within his art
\"Jan van Eyck was one of the most inventive and influential artists in the entire European tradition. The phenomenal realism of his paintings, now six centuries old, still astounds observers in a world accustomed to high-resolution images. But other dimensions of his work are just as original and absorbing. Unlike any earlier artist, Van Eyck infused his paintings with himself. In addition to portraying, reflecting and implying his own presence in a variety of works, he also introduced his voice, hand and mind in an array of inscriptions, signatures and even a personal motto. Incorporating a wealth of new research and recent discoveries within a fresh exploration of the paintings themselves, this book reveals how profoundly Jan van Eyck transformed the very idea of what an artist could be.\"--Page three of cover.
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Flemish versus Netherlandish: A Discourse of Nationalism
This essay shows how scholarship on fifteenth-century Flemish panel painting became intertwined with efforts at national identity-building in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Europe. Paintings such as Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece were not only dispersed across regional and national boundaries, but were intellectually appropriated for competing national programs. The paintings consequently became a site of conflict between the Latin and Germanic traditions. These conflicts are clearly visible through the shifting terminology of this art, variously claimed as ``Flemish'' and ``Netherlandish.'' Such nationalist discourses shaped future scholarship on Flemish painting and contributed to its perceived inferiority vis-à-vis the Southern artistic tradition.
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