Oer: De wortels van Vlaanderen 1850-1930
Katharina Van Cauteren
The Phoebus Foundation & Hannibal, 2025
€60,00
A reference work on the roots of Flemish cultural history, from Emile Claus to Léon Spilliaert.
OER is a book about roots. About what it means to be Flemish. About how artists like Emile Claus, Valerius De Saedeleer, George Minne, and Gustave Van de Woestyne already felt nostalgic for the Flanders of their dreams at the beginning of the twentieth century. The works of James Ensor, Rik Wouters, and Léon Spilliaert could also have been created nowhere else in the world than here, in “le plat pays.” After the First World War, Constant Permeke, Gust. De Smet, Frits Van den Berghe, and Edgard Tytgat present the perspectives of artists “from here” on the world “from here.” This book is thus a quest for what Flanders is, was, or can be.
Through richly illustrated essays, OER revives the broad cultural context of the Flemish Belle Époque and the interwar period. It’s an exploration of one’s own roots, of what continues to grow from what once was. That makes the past come alive. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 978946466 696 0
