Spaces of Belgian Culture The Public, the Private, and Strategies of Identification (c. 1850 - c. 1920)

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

1. A Garden with A View: Visual Culture at the Antwerp Zoo

                       Leen Engelen

1. 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

1. 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

1. Bonheur & Douleur: Alfred Stevens and the Ambivalent Depiction of Mothers in Domestic Settings

                       Apolline Malevez & Marjan Sterckx

1. Representation of Fin-de-siècle Belgian Queer Spaces in Georges Eekhoud’s Short Stories

                       Michael Rosenfeld

1. Memory Space and Modern Temporality: Fernand Khnopff’s Artist’s Studio in Light of Rodenbach and Huysmans

                       Dominique Bauer

1. 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

Biography

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