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Uitgeverij de Kunst We kiss the earth
The Danish artists participating in the Cobra movement (1948-1951) are 10 to 15 years older than their Dutch and Belgian colleagues. They experienced in the ''30s and ''40s an intense artistic development, which later unmistakably influenced Cobra and is thus of great importance for the Dutch postwar visual art. With the Danish triptych exhibition, the Cobra Museum of Modern Art opens the anniversary year 2023, which is dedicated to the founding of the Cobra movement - 75 years ago.Text in English and Dutch.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Martin Roemers: Relics of the Cold War
The Cold War is over - yet signs of it still exist. For forty years, the Iron Curtain divided the countries of Europe into East and West. The arms race was unleashed, nuclear fallout shelters were constructed, and everyone braced for the worst. Dutch photographer Martin Roemers (1962) spent ten years in search of the traces of this period, travelling through the countries of former enemies on both sides of the line. He explored and photographed abandoned underground tunnels, former barracks, rotting tanks, and destroyed monuments. His photographs, which are presented here with essays by H.J.A. Hofland and Nadine Barth, are a stark and moving document of this era of hostility, deterrence politics, and the arms race - and also serve as an appeal for future peace. Text in English and Dutch.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Niki de Saint Phalle by the Sea
The Nanas created by French sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) are world famous. These colourful, exuberantly happy female figures who go through life dancing, leaping and buzzing with energy have become an iconic image of woman. With controversial pieces like her 'shooting pictures', Niki de Saint Phalle also played a leading role in the European 'Nouveaux Réalisme' movement, and her monumental sculptures adorn public spaces in many towns and cities. Her rotund Nanas with their self-confident, independent attitude remain as relevant today as they were when they were first created. Text in English and Dutch.
£24.75
Uitgeverij de Kunst The National Holocaust Museum and the Hollandsche Schouwburg
The National Holocaust Museum tells the story of the Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews of the Netherlands. Before the Second World War, Jews and non-Jews lived side by side. They had the same rights. But during the war, the Nazis and their collaborators killed around six million Jews in Europe. That was the Holocaust or Shoah. This is the first and only museum to relate the history of the persecution of the Jews of the entire Netherlands. Including the day-to-day life of Jews on the eve of the Second World War, the liberation as Jews experienced it, and how the Holocaust has been treated in our national culture of remembrance: all this is examined in the museum and this book.Text in English and Dutch.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Kaleidoscope of Histories Art from Ukraine
Taking four themes as its starting point, this book reveals the strong interconnectedness of Ukraine''s turbulent history, the country''s permanent social and political unrest and the work of Ukrainian artists. Against Oppression, Forgotten Histories, Spaces of Freedom and Thoughts on the Future each reflect the dynamic between the drive for freedom and the mechanisms of oppression.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Looted Art Restitution
Looted Art & Restitution relates the history of the trade, looting and restitution of works of art from the Netherlands before, during and after World War II. Countless artworks ended up in German hands during the occupation. The allies recovered a large number of works of art to the Netherlands after the war. It was the Dutch government's task to return looted or forcibly sold works to their original owners. The mostly Jewish claimants, however, often encountered bureaucratic and unwilling authorities. Meanwhile, most of the artworks were distributed over museums and depots or auctioned off.It was not until the late 1990s that, in accordance with international developments, the restitution policy became much more humane and a search for the rightful owners was implemented.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Lothar Wolleh sees Jan Schoonhoven
Few artists are so inextricably tied to their native soil as Jan Schoonhoven (1914-1994). In the early 1960s, the born and bred man of Delft achieved international renown with his white reliefs of paper and cardboard, yet he always remained loyal to ''his'' Delft. The German photographer Lothar Wolleh (1930-1979) admired Schoonhoven''s work and visited Delft for the first time in 1968. Jan Schoonhoven and Lothar Wolleh intended their 1971 artists'' book to be a calling card of their artistry. It was a project which often brought the photographer back to Delft. Schoonhoven showed Wolleh how the rhythms of the city recur in drawings and reliefs as ''isolated realities''. Pavement, weathered walls of the alleys of Delft and windows along the canals: Jan Schoonhovens work is abstract and autonomous, but ''breathes'' Delft nevertheless.Text in English and Dutch.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Dirck Nab Paysage Dessine
Dirck Nab''s drawn landscapes touch us because they evoke a desire to be there: alone with our thoughts in the wild dunes or in the vast fields. - Taco Dibbets , director of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.Dirck Nab draws in nature, his true source of inspiration. He works in the dunes of North Holland, near his studio in Bakkum. His drawings, in vigorous charcoal or chalk strokes, are characterised by a powerful clair-obscur.In the book Dirck Nab - Paysage Dessiné, the hand becomes visible. The hand that notes, is carried away, bows, plays or gets carried away with the wind. Dirck Nab''s drawings are accompanied by writings by Dirck Nab himself, as well as texts by Huigen Leeflang (curator at the Prints and Drawings Department of the Rijksmuseum), Sjoerd Kuyper (writer), Ineke Holzhaus (poet), Theo Olthuis (poet), Harry ter Balkt (poet), Fernando Pessoa (poet) and Taco Dibbits (director of the Rijksmuseum).The book Dirck
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Uitgeverij de Kunst David Bailly
David Bailly's Vanitas Still Life with Portrait of a Young Painter earned him a prominent place in art history. Almost 400 years after it was made, the painting a masterpiece that raises all kinds of questions continues to fascinate art historians. Is this a self-portrait? What do all the objects in the painting refer to? And who is the mysterious woman whose image appears against the wall? This book subjects the painting and the artist to a thorough examination. Bailly lived in Leiden, at the same time as Rembrandt. He painted and drew portraits and still lifes. This book considers his life and work together for the first time and presents the results of a technical investigation that has revealed the hidden layers in his most important masterpiece.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Van Gogh Cezanne Le Fauconnier
In this book, three famous, late 19th-century artists take centre stage: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and Henri Le Fauconnier (1881-1945). They played a crucial role in the genesis of the Bergen School. The works of these great masters are juxtaposed with the oeuvres of the very first Bergen School artists: Leo Gestel, Gerrit Willem van Blaaderen, Else Berg, Mommie Schwarz, Dirk Filarski, Arnout Colnot and the Wiegman brothers. This book paints a new and more nuanced picture of the rise of Expressionism in the Netherlands. Van Gogh, Cézanne, Le Fauconnier & the Bergen School thus represents a valuable addition to the history of Dutch art.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst APPEL
Dutch Silver Camera winner Nico Koster photographed Karel Appel from close by over a period of 30 years, immortalising his flamboyant life as an artist in Amsterdam, Paris, Tokyo and New York. These photo reportages have now been compiled to mark the centenary of Appel''s birth.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst The Gardens of Amsterdam Castle Muiderslot
Amsterdam Castle Muiderslot is not just the oldest castle in the Netherlands. It is a magical place, surrounded by water and vegetation. The castle gardens feature lots of heritage varieties: vegetables, herbs, fruit, herbaceous plants and flowers (some of them edible). The produce from the gardens was for centuries used to prepare the exquisite meals at the castle. And the gardens still produce a rich harvest every year. Muiderslot is also part of the Amsterdam Defence Line, a World Heritage Site. The castle gardens are open daily, offering visitors the chance to enjoy this lush part of our heritage.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Jan Davidsz. de Heem
Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-1684) was one of the best still-life painters of the 17th century. His work, which is enchanting to the eye, has always enjoyed international fame. Throughout his painting career of nearly 60 years, de Heem continued to search for new and better ways to depict his subjects. He trained several pupils and had countless followers and imitators, in the Netherlands as well as abroad, and throughout the centuries. The fact that he was active in both the Northern and Southern Netherlands enhanced his success and fame. He worked successively in Leiden, (presumably) in Amsterdam, in Antwerp, in Utrecht and again in Antwerp.De Heem is perhaps best known for his exuberant floral still lifes, which, however, were mainly created after 1660. By then, already for decades, he had painted still lifes of many themes and motifs, and in a variety of sizes, modest as well as luxurious. In Antwerp he had developed the large, rich still lifes which earned him part of his
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Sunken Treasures: Discoveries in shipwrecks from the Maritime Silk Road 800-1900
The book presents and describes the treasures hidden away in centuries-old shipwrecks: visible treasures like Chinese porcelain, as well as invisible treasures in the form of new knowledge revealed by the ships and their cargos. The stories of seven shipwrecks not only paint a picture of the Maritime Silk Road but also of the development of maritime archaeology in the Netherlands and in Asia. Text in English and Dutch.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Frisse Wind
The new French art movement known as impressionism' blew through Europe like a breath of fresh air'. This publication focuses on artists from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, including important representatives of the movement such as Anna Ancher, Lovis Corinth, Isaac Israels, Johan Barthold Jongkind, Peder Severin Krøyer, Max Liebermann and Max Slevogt. A selection of highlights from the collections of three museums showcases the individual varieties of Northern Impressionism'. The catalogue accompanies the touring exhibition of the same name, a cooperation between the Museum Singer Laren, the Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, and the Landesmuseum Hannover.Text in English and Dutch.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Fashion for God
When the survival of the Catholic Church was threatened during the Republic and Catholic shelter churches were not allowed to be recognisable from the street, what was not allowed to be shown on the outside was compensated for on the inside. In the 17th century, the robes became gold, silver and silk expressions of silent resistance, but also of a feminist agenda of the makers. Behind closed doors, everything was literally and figuratively pulled out to propagate the Catholic faith. Worn ball gowns with colourful flowered French, English and Chinese fashion fabrics were donated to the church by rich, pious women so that beautiful and special church vestments could be made from them. So it could easily happen that a priest in a pink robe with flowers stood at the altar.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Swirling Starlings
Through his photographs of swirling swarms of starlings - murmurations - photographer Erik Hijweege explores the impressive drama of the natural world. In this series of images, he captures flocks of starlings as they form and reform in the Dutch sky. Often they present as familiar shapes, such as fish, or swans, that can best be seen when captured in photographs.In the accompanying text, art historian Maartje van den Heuvel compares Hijweege's images to the cloudy skies in 17th century Dutch painting. Nature journalist Koos Dijksterhuis explains why starling swarms occur,and explains the wonderful choreography of this breath-taking natural phenomenon. This work was exhibited at the Nature Museum Fryslan in Leeuwarden. Text in English and Dutch.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Travelling with Vincent Van Gogh in Drenthe
Vincent van Gogh boarded the last train from The Hague to Hoogeveen on Tuesday, September 11, 1883. He stays there for several weeks, then moves to Nieuw-Amsterdam/Veenoord and visits Zweeloo. The landscape makes a deep impression on him. Everywhere around him he sees landscapes that remind him of the work of his great examples: the Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century, the 19th-century Barbizon School of France and his contemporaries of the Hague School. It inspired him to set to work himself. His period in Drenthe is an important moment in Van Gogh''s development as an artist that ultimately made him world famous. This book sheds new light on perhaps the least known chapter in Van Gogh''s life story.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst The Palace
The Royal Palace Amsterdam is one of the most iconic buildings in the Netherlands, visited by hundreds of thousands of people each year. But suppose you had the palace all to yourself for a day: if you could roam the building from early morning until the dead of night, what would you discover? Join photographers Arjan Benning and Polina Gladkova on their journey.Text in English and Dutch.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst The Christmas story as told by HeeHaw the donkey
This is me, Hee-haw. I'm going to tell you a story. Not just any old story a Christmas story. You're going to see the most beautiful paintings and drawings in the world too. You'll probably be surprised to see how many pictures I'm in. Hundreds no, thousands! And that's because I, Hee-haw, play a very important part in this story. As you will see.' Martine Gosselink, director of the Mauritshuis museum, tells the Christmas story through the eyes of Hee-haw the donkey, drawn by Thé Tjong-Khing. How come? Because I was always there!'
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Developing Exhibitions: There is a method in this madness
"This book immediately becomes the reference on how to create exhibitions in modern museums and how to work through the complexities of the exhibition development process, and it does so with humour, flair, and great understanding of the hard work involved." - Russell Briggs, Director Engagement, Exhibitions & Cultural Connection, Australian Museum "This method is an indispensable tool for all museum professionals: from director and curator to project manager and marketeer." - Wim van der Weiden Founder of EMA Developing Exhibitions describes an extensive in-depth methodology and practical framework on the development and production of exhibitions. It is a manual, with schemes and systems and a focus on the processes, and on the practice of developing content and storylines. As there is no other such clear-cut manual at present, it is already clear it will be used by several courses and programmes.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Tjalf Sparnaay
Tjalf Sparnaay, internationally acclaimed artist known for his iconic oil paintings of fried eggs, hamburgers and more, will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of his art career in 2024. In this book, Sparnaay looks back on his artistic journey, his passion for painting, and what comes next. More than 60 works from various museums and private collections provide a special overview of his oeuvre.Text in English and Dutch.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Freedom without borders
Freedom Without Borders. From Appel to Basquiat shows Cobra''s close affinity with the creative free expression of artists over the years. The universal character of Cobra is emphasised by displaying almost 150 works by well-known and lesser-known artists brought together in surprising combinations. Works by Cobra artists such as Appel, Constant and Alechinsky are shown with precursors such as Van Gogh, Picasso, Miró and Munch, with peers such as Pollock and more recent artists such as Basquiat. By placing the artworks next to or close to each other, new cross-references and perspectives on the meaning of Cobra art emerge and the relationship to precursors, contemporaries and contemporary artists is shown. This publication gives the reader the freedom to follow and discover connections or arrive at different views.Text in English and Dutch.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst The Solebay Tapestries
The monumental 17th century Solebay Tapestry series captures the first major naval battle of the third Anglo-Dutch war (1672-1674), which took place off the coast of England.Of the 12 tapestries created after drawings by the artist Willem van de Velde the Elder (who witnessed the battle firsthand), two are in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. The first tapestry shows the burning of the flagship of the English fleet, the Royal James. The other depicts the two war fleets as they line up in a long line, ready to continue the battle the next morning. This is the first book in a series that highlights the objects in the National Maritime Museum of the Netherlands.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Manhattan Masters
Manhattan Masters shows the most beautiful Dutch Masters from the Golden Age in The Frick Collection, New York. The book elaborates the creation of The Frick Collection, brought together during America's Gilded Age in the last quarter of the 19th century. This book, published to accompany the exhibition, focuses exclusively on Dutch paintings of the 17th century and features outstanding works by renowned artist of that period, including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, and Ruisdael.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Tilo Baumgartel
Rooms of fragments' is how Tilo Baumgärtel (1972) describes his artworks. That is a perfect description. Because when one looks at one of his works, it is never entirely clear what is happening. Different elements alternate each other in colourful and fairytale-like worlds, creating a high degree of intrigue and alienation: what has happened here? Or better yet, what is about to happen? Baumgärtel can be considered one of the most remarkable Leipzig artists of his generation. He graduated from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in 2000 and is often considered to be part of the so-called ''Neue Leipziger Schule''.Text in English and Dutch.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Roelant Saverys Wondrous World
Roelant Savery (1578-1639) was among the large group of Flemish artists who arrived in the Northern Netherlands around 1600, during the Eighty Years'' War. There, they were at the cradle of the great flowering of art in the 17th century. Savery was a highly versatile draughtsman and painter, specialising in landscapes, animal scenes and flower still lifes. With encyclopaedic precision, he depicted countless different species: animals, flowers but also people from various regions, from Bohemian peasants to Jewish believers in the synagogue. Savery became the painter of the extinct dodo from Mauritius. For more than a decade, Savery worked in the service of the Habsburg emperor Rudolf II in Prague, who sent him out to capture the landscapes and people of his empire. Coming from the Low Countries, the waterfalls in the Alps must have made a deep impression on the artist. After returning to the Netherlands, Roelant Savery settled in Utrecht, where he created a garden with precious flowe
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Henry Moore
Henry Moore (18981986) is undoubtedly one of the leading English sculptors of the 20th century. His work in museums, parks and on town squares can be admired throughout the world. How did Moore arrive at his unique and instantly recognisable visual vocabulary?Henry Moore Form and Material is not just a display of masterpieces from his oeuvre but also focuses on the evolution that he underwent as a sculptor and the influence that nature has had on his work. This dozens of objects and sculptures collected together in this publication reveal the vision and creative process that formed one of the most important innovators of modern sculpture. The selected works illustrate how the choice of materials shaped the form, dimensions and subjects of his sculptures.Text in English and Dutch.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Pen Meets Paint: 200 Years Mauritshuis, 200 Writers, 200 Paintings
What happens when two art forms – the literary and the visual arts – come together? For its bicentenary, the Mauritshuis asked 200 writers to draw inspiration from the museum’s collection. The crème de la crème of today's literary community, from at home and abroad, participated in this remarkable book. One writer; one work of art from the Mauritshuis; 200 words per contribution – never before have so many authors appeared together in a single publication. To name just a few of the contributors: Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Nicci French, Arnon Grunberg, Murat Isik, Hilary Mantel, Cees Nooteboom, Jan Cremer, Connie Palmen, Sholeh Rezazadeh, Simon Schama and Donna Tartt. The authors themselves were allowed to decide what they wanted to write and the amazing result is stories, poems, short reflections, drawings and even a recipe.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Thuis/Home. Paper Biennial 2020
The main theme of the 2020 Paper Biennial is the topical subject of 'Home'. In our globalised world it has become less common to live in the same place where we were born. More than ever, and for many different reasons, people emigrate. But the one thing everyone has in common is that they long for a safe home. Home is a universal understanding with many meanings and interpretations. For everyone it is essential to call a place home; absence of a home is disruptive and will blow away the ground under every existence. Recent figures speak of 68 million refugees in the world and 5 million stateless people; they are not recognised by their government and do not have a passport. The Paper Biennial 2020 shows the many interpretations and meanings of the term 'Home' that artists give to it in their work. They are personal views that deal with domestic circumstances that can be easily felt by everyone. The artists participating in this book are socially committed and/or provide insight into their work as a world citizen. The sum of the visions on the 'Home' theme are testimonies of the universality that everyone clings to love and security. Text in English and Dutch.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Bruegel and Contemporaries: Art as a Covert Resistance
This catalogue for an exhibition at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht features paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Younger and his contemporaries that depict the popular religious subject “Christ Carrying the Cross,” and examines these works for covert critiques of power and politics in Flanders during the 16th and 17th centuries. The show explores how artists incorporated both direct and indirect social and political criticisms into paintings on this theme, and brings together a selection of works from Bruegel the Younger, his predecessors, contemporaries, and followers.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst The Universe of Amsterdam: Treasures from the Golden Age of Cartography
The largest maps in the world are to be found in the floor of the Citizens' Hall, in the heart of the Royal Palace Amsterdam. The three circular mosaics, each measuring over six metres in diameter, together depict the known world and the night sky. They remain to this day an iconic and beloved part of the majestic palace, which was originally built in the mid-17th century to serve as Amsterdam's town hall. At that time, the city was the world's leading cartography centre. The prominent place of the floor maps relates directly to that primacy. This book tells the story of these unique maps and of the flourishing of cartography in Amsterdam in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Barbara Nanning - Eternal Movement: Ceramics, Installations and Glass Art
2019 marked the 40th anniversary of Barbara Nanning's graduation in ceramics from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Over those forty years, Nanning (b.1957) has become an internationally respected artist with work in countless public and private collections in the Netherlands and around the world. Originally, her reputation was due mainly to her pioneering ceramics and installations, which had completely abandoned the container form that had so long dominated studio pottery. But for the last 25 years Nanning has worked chiefly in a different medium: glass, in which she has created an amazing and multi-faceted oeuvre. Each year she spends an extended period in the Czech Republic, where expert glassblowers help her to conjure up the most extraordinary and thrilling objects in that material.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst CRUX: Martin Kobe, Mirjam Völker, Robert Seidel, Titus Schade
Leipzig is not just a city famous for music and books but also a focal point for painting. This book showcases the latest generation of artists from Leipzig: Martin Kobe (1973), Mirjam Völker (1977), Robert Seidel (1983) and Titus Schade (1984). They are continuing the great tradition of painting in Leipzig. They all studied at Leipzig's famous art academy, the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst. Kobe was a master-class student of Arno Rink, while Völker, Seidel and Schade studied with Neo Rauch. The four artists are united by their virtuosity and the particular attention they pay to landscape and architecture. Text in English, Dutch and German.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst The White Blouse: Marie-Jeanne van Hövell tot Westerflier - Photographer with a Painter's Soul
Since 2011, photographer Marie-Jeanne van Hövell tot Westerflier has been working on a series of portraits in which a century-old white blouse plays a leading role. Over 75 people of all ages and both sexes have accepted her invitation to pose for a photo shoot with the antique garment. This book presents the results of her project, preceded by an account of the photographer's work and career. It contains white blouse portraits not only of Dutch celebrities like Jenny Arean, Jort Kelder, Alexandra Radius, Toer van Schayk and Daan Schuurmans, but also of lesser-known people and some children. Text in English and Dutch.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Amsterdam Castle Muiderslot
Tough and stubborn. That's Amsterdam Castle Muiderslot, the oldest and best-preserved castle in the Netherlands. It is a magical place, surrounded by greenery and water. Built by Count Floris V in 1285, during its long history it has been used as a home, besieged and occupied, demolished, rebuilt and refurbished. This book tells the turbulent story of the finest Medieval castle in the Netherlands, now a lively place enjoyed by many visitors.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Visiting Historic Houses in Amsterdam
In fact, my entire journey through Amsterdam's vibrant house museums was one great historical sensation in a variety of contexts. I followed in the footsteps of Dutch East India Company directors, workers, orphans, writers, artists, architects, and many others, seeing how they livedand worked. How they ate in poverty-stricken 19th-century slums or at lavishly laid tables in canal-side mansions of Van Loon or Bartolotti. How they prayed in secret with Father Parmentier in a clandestine attic church. I am not longer just an Amsterdammer: now I'm an Amsterdammer with a past. - Froukje Wattel.Text in English and Dutch.
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