Spaces of Belgian Culture : The Public, the Private, and Strategies of Identification (c. 1850 - c. 1920) (Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective)

Bauer, Dominique (EDT)/ Van Damme, Ilja (EDT)/ Sterckx, Marjan (EDT)

Pallas Publications（2026/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 384 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789048565085

Full 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 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, the embassy, 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.

Contents

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

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

Leen Engelen

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

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

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

Apolline Malevez & Marjan Sterckx

Representation of Fin-de-siècle Belgian Queer Spaces in Georges Eekhoud's Short Stories

Michael Rosenfeld

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

Dominique Bauer

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