Published concurrently with Holland's inaugural Apeldoorn Garden and Landscape Architecture Triennial, The Discovery of the Netherlands explores how the genre of Dutch landscape painting has played a role in the viewer's appreciation of the landscape. Editor Henk van Os, Department Chair of Art and Society at the University of Amsterdam, contends that the function of landscape painting is to educate the viewer to appreciate, through the artists' skill, the view that the artist has chosen to portray. Van Os echoes a key tenet of nineteenth century landscape painting--that framing nature frees it for aesthetic appreciation. This volume explores how the diverse Dutch landscape has been fervently idealized by generations of Dutch artists, literally leading to the discovery of its aesthetic virtue. The publication features works by Hendrik Chabot, Jacob Maris, Anton Mauve and Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, among others. Also included is an essay on the subject of contemporary conservation by Louise Fresco.

The Discovery of the Netherlands: Four Centuries of Landscape Painting by Dutch Masters

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

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The expression "Dutch landscape" continues to evoke painterly traditions of unspoiled and idyllic farmland, but like any other country, the Netherlands has altered radically over the last century, and today enjoys international renown for its hi-tech cultivation and reshaping of the landscape. Since the 1980s, a number of outstanding landscape photographers and video artists have been taking this artificial character of the Dutch landscape as a point of departure for their work, focusing on motorways, railways and the recently created landscape of symmetrical polders, greenhouses, business parks and suburban residential districts. Nature as Artifice brings this group together officially for the first time, with work by Hans Aarsman, Jannes Linders, Wout Berger, Henze Boekhout, Edwin Zwakman, Theo Baart, Cary Markerink, Hans van der Meer, Marnix Goossens, Driessens/ Verstappen, Hans Werlemann, Gert Jan Kocken, Bas Princen, Gábor Ösz, Gerco de Ruijter and Frank van der Salm.

Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art 1989-the Present

Painting

A garden is not an object but a process, as the artist and gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay once observed, and one particular fascination of landscape architecture is its very real negotiation of that rocky terrain between conception and cultivation. The labors of the former, however, are not often seen by the public that experiences its material outcome. Published on the occasion of the 2008 Landscape Architecture Triennial for the exhibition at Paleis Het Loo, Apeldoorn, Landscapes of the Imagination presents landscape architecture as a design discipline, recognizing it as a dialogue with an especially unruly and impermanent form. A selection of 40 original designs and sketches from the rich European heritage of garden and landscape architecture forms the core of this book. Spanning from 1600-2000, these include designs by such familiar luminaries as Le Nôtre, Humphrey Repton, Peter Joseph Lenné, Ernst Cramer, Gunnar Asplund and Bernard Tschumi, as well as less famed designers--including one seventeenth century amateur/commissioner. These sketches, virtually unknown among the general public or even professional circles, emphasize garden and landscape architecture as a highly skilled conceptual art. Reference materials (engravings, photographs and text) offer the reader some insight into the design of these landscapes and elucidate the process of composition. Six plans are documented in their current state in a photographic essay.

Landscapes of the Imagination: Designing the European Tradition of Garden and Landscape Architecture 1600-2000

de Jong, Erik

Architecture

Amsterdam-based landscape architect Michael van Gessel has been working with, rather than against, nature for the past three decades. He expresses his ethos by quoting the English author and landscape architect Joseph Spence: "Respect for the past, combined with a curiosity for what is and a feeling for what could be. This is the dynamo that starts the engine of the design." Accordingly, van Gessel embraces a diversity of projects, from private gardens to urban planning. He supervised the renovation of Amsterdam's Vondel Park, drew up the master plan to restore the landscaping around Utretch's Castle De Haar and managed to integrate the inner courtyards of the Ministry of Agriculture in The Hague into the urban fabric. This comprehensive volume places van Gessel's myriad approaches into context and illuminates his pivotal role in the formation of contemporary Dutch landscape architecture.

Michael Van Gessel: Landscape Architect: Invisible Work

Dutch architect Cornelis van Eesteren's dream of the functional city was never realized, but his masterpiece of architectural prospecting is presented here in its entirety.

Cornelius Van Eesteren: The Idea Of The Functional City: Lectures with Slides by Cornelius van Eesteren, Berlin 1928

van Eesteren, Cornelis

Based at Goldsmiths, University of London, Networked Cultures is a collaborative venture between artists, architects and urbanists that investigates the cultural transformations underway in Europe by examining the potential and effect of networked spatial practices. Beginning with the hypothesis that networks have become the defining characteristic of twenty-first century social and spatial organization, this publication traces the development of Networked Culture's multifaceted project. Network creativity is traced by following the routes laid out by artists, architects, urbanists, curators and activists. The interrelationship of space and conflict is investigated by mapping contested international regions, by examining the architecture of conflict and by analyzing models of geocultural negotiation. Numerous interviews, urban interventions, public art projects and architectural experiments gathered from the groups, practices or initiatives encountered during the research provide a wealth of illustrative material.

Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

In 2006, Amsterdam's 66 East: Centre for Urban Culture organized a project in which artists and architects--including Theo Baart, Bas Princen, Ralph Kämena, Jannes Linders, Jeroen Musch and Hans Werlemann--examined Amsterdam's predominately Arabic and Turkish neighborhood, Indische Buurt, which had recently become home to studios and offices for the creative sector, often seen as the first step in gentrification. Adopting strategies ranging from critical commentary to activist intervention, the project and subsequent exhibition, Houses of Transformation, posits creative alternatives for urban planners, developers and administrators in responding to the inevitable and ongoing problems of urban renewal. This volume documents these strategies and proposals, while also casting a critical eye on similar neighborhoods in other European cities--including Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Brussels and London--putting the unique issues of Dutch gentrification into a larger perspective.

Houses of Transformation: Intervening in European Gentrification

Smith, Neil

Uitermark, Justus

Berg, Jaap Jan

Breznik, Maja

Reinders, Leeke

Artwork by Herman Hertzberger. Text by Herman Bergeijk, Deborah Hauptmann.

Notations of Herman Hertzberger

Deborah Hauptmann

Herman Hertzberger

States Of Humanity

Danto, Arthur

Individual Artists

Europan 5: New Housing Landscapes Travel a

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