1st Edition

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

384 Pages 10 Color & 65 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Spaces of Belgian Culture between the Public and the Private, the Self and the Other (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

2. Enlightened Spaces: Public Lecturing, the Projection Lantern and Society Life in Fin-de-siècle Belgium, c. 1900 – c. 1920

Margo Buelens-Terryn, Doris Blancquaert, and Ilja Van Damme

3. 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 and Davy Depelchin

Spaces of Private Culture – Intimacy and Memory

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

Apolline Malevez and Marjan Sterckx

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

Michael Rosenfeld

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

Dominique Bauer

8. 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 and David Hutama Setiadi

Epilogue

Laurence Brogniez and Tatiana Debroux