1st Edition
Identity and Climate Change in Contemporary Photography Reframing Netherlandish Landscapes
Introduction 1. Land, Place, Identity: Netherlandish Landscapes as Visual Expressions of Dutch Culture 2. Dutch Landscape: The Concept 3. Coast: From International Trading to Endangered Marine life 4. River: Pictorial River Landscapes to Mechanised Hydraulic infrastructure – and back 5. Polder: From Man-Made Waterscapes to Industrial Infrastructure 6. Higher Sands: From Romanticized Pastoral Poverty to intensive cattle farming and back to Enchanting Heathland Walks Epilogue
Biography
Maartje van den Heuvel is curator of photography at the Special Collections of Leiden University Libraries, Netherlands. She was awarded her PhD by Leiden University in 2018 for her dissertation Picturing Landscape. As a guest curator, she organises photography and art exhibitions accompanied by scholarly publications, collaborating with institutions including the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo; Aperture Gallery, New York; the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; the Fotomuseum Den Haag and Hilversum; and the Kunsthal, Rotterdam.
