Del i serien Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective

Spaces of Belgian Culture

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

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvDominique Bauer,Ilja Van Damme,Marjan Sterckx

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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, theembassy, 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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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-24
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpatial Imageries in Historical Perspective
Antal sidor304
FörlagPallas Publications
ISBN9789048565085

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Introduction: Spaces of Belgian Culture between the Public and the Private, the Self and the Other (c. 1850-c. 1920)Van Damme, Sterckx and BauerSpaces of Public Culture – Attraction and Education 1. A Garden with A View: Visual Culture at the Antwerp ZooLeen Engelen2. Enlightened Spaces: Public Lecturing, the Projection Lantern and Society Life in Fin-de-siècle Belgium, c. 1900 – c. 1920Margo Buelens-Terryn, Doris Blancquaert, and Ilja Van Damme3. Staging a Poet’s Misery: Settings and Supporting Actors of Charles Baudelaire’s Stay in Belgium (1864-1866)Tom Verschaffel4. Down the Rabbit Hole: The Hidden Spaces of Le Diable au Corps in Brussels (1892- 1898)Evelien Jonckheere and Davy DepelchinSpaces of Private Culture – Intimacy and Memory5. Bonheur & Douleur: Alfred Stevens and the Ambivalent Depiction of Mothers in Domestic SettingsApolline Malevez and Marjan Sterckx6. Representation of Fin-de-siècle Belgian Queer Spaces in Georges Eekhoud’s Short StoriesMichael Rosenfeld7. Memory Space and Modern Temporality: Fernand Khnopff’s Artist’s Studio in Light of Rodenbach and HuysmansDominique Bauer8. Ensor’s Souvenirs: Objects and their Meanings in the Artist’s Late Still LifesApolline MalevezSpaces of Belgian Sociability – Identities and Nations9. Musealisation and Meaning Making in the Studio of Constantin MeunierUlrike Müller10. The Private Interior as Exhibition Space: The Catalogues of the 1880 National Exhibition in Brussels and Jules-Jacques Van Ysendyck (1836-1891)Zsuzsanna Böröcz11. Exporting National Identity Abroad? The Neo-Flemish Renaissance Castle in Beijing (1902-1909) as an Instrument of Communication and LegitimationCharlotte Rottiers12. Belgian Space in Exile in Interwar Britain in Interwar Britain: The Anglo-Belgian Union and its “Friendly Competition” with the Anglo-Batavian SocietyUlrich Tiedau13. 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 SetiadiEpilogue Laurence Brogniez and Tatiana Debroux