Coming Home – Flemish Art 1880-1930 by Katharina Van Cauteren

£30.00

“Coming Home” by Katharina Van Cauteren is a large catalogue of Flemish masterpieces from 1880–1930. It shows you an in-depth view of Flemish art of all kinds, the development of Flemish art, and the Flemish artists. It will also tell you a bit more about the Phoebus Foundation and the author, Katharina Van Cauteren.

Coming Home also brings to vivid life the broad cultural context of the Flemish belle époque and the years between the twentieth century’s two world wars. It’s a book about Symbolism, Impressionism and Expressionism, and a forgotten piece of art history. But above all, Coming Home is a story about roots and the search for a sense of belonging in a rapidly changing world – a quest as relevant today as it was then.

If you are still interested in this Catalogue you can still order straight from the Phoebus Foundation Online Shop.

This book accompanied the Main Exhibition From November 2022 to February 2023; Painting Flanders.

29.7 x 25.5cm

Hardback with sleeve

417 pages, colour illustration

Published by Lannoo Publishing July 2020

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Description

By the late nineteenth century, Belgium was one of the most industrialized countries in the world. Particularly the north of the country, Flanders, where forests of factory chimneys belched out stinking smoke and workers lived crammed together in squalid slums. Small wonder that artists like Emile Claus, Valerius De Saedeleer, George Minne and Gustave Van de Woestyne dreamed of a different world, of Flanders as it used to be, uncomplicated and unspoiled. They found the echoes of that lost Elysium in forgotten farming villages. Or in their imaginations. The sense of something lost and gone also haunts the works of James Ensor, Rik Wouters and Léon Spilliaert. Only one place in the world could have produced their burlesque humour, colourful romanticism and muted melancholy: ‘le plat pays’ by the grey North Sea. And it’s there too that Constant Permeke, Gust. De Smet, Frits Van den Berghe and Edgard Tytgat took their own idiosyncratic look at frangible post-First World War reality. COMING HOME brings to vivid life the broad cultural context of the Flemish belle époque and the years between the twentieth century’s two world wars. It’s a book about Symbolism, Impressionism and Expressionism, and a forgotten piece of art history. But above all, COMING HOME is a story about roots and the search for a sense of belonging in a rapidly changing world – a quest as relevant today as it was then.

ISBN:9789401451772

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