"The colorful trash of the Flemish School": Netherlandish art and Russian literature

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Authors
Publication date 2008
Host editors
  • E. de Haard
  • W. Honselaar
  • J. Stelleman
Book title Literature and beyond: Festschrift for Willem G. Weststeijn on the occasion of his 65th birthday
ISBN
  • 9789061433262
Series Pegasus-Oost-Europese Studies, 11-2
Pages (from-to) 885-906
Publisher Amsterdam: Pegasus
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR)
Abstract Willem Weststeijn once began an essay with a thought experiment: what would have
happened when the Netherlands had become a Socialist state, with a literary canon
championing Theun de Vries as the nation’s prime author? In the realm of the visual
arts, there is no need for this kind of speculation. Soviet cultural historians allotted a key
role to Dutch art, often confounding it with Flemish art. Their judgment tacked on to
ideas that had taken root in the Russian literary imagination already in the nineteenth
century.
Document type Chapter
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