Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 73 (2023)

Wetland. Shaping Environments in Netherlandish Art
Volume Editors: Joost Keizer, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, and Stephanie Porras

What aspects of their environment do artists decide to depict? Are they critical of the way in which others treat the environments that surround them?
This NKJ volume finds an answer to these questions by focusing on the Dutch environment between the fifteenth century and now, a wetland that humans constantly tried to shape and reshape according to their needs. Gathering essays by scholars of early modern and modern and contemporary art, Wetland discovers the past of future landscapes in art.

isbn 978 90 04 68165 1

Table of Contents:
1. Joost Keizer, Ann-Sophie Lehmann & Stephanie Porras. Wet land’s past futures
2. Oliver Kik. Mapping the wet land. The painter-cartographer in the Low Countries, 1480-1550
3. Rachel Kase. Shifting shores. Environment, cartography and artistic invention in Jan Saenredam’s Beached whale near Beverwijk and Claes Jansz Visscher’s View of Egmond aan Zee
4. Maurice Saß. Without Nature. Rubens’s wet landscapes: From oikeiosis to ecomimesis
5. Theresa Brauer. Zwadderen in oil paint. Jan van Goyen’s fluid landscapes
6. Yannis Hadjinicolaou. A raptor’s-eye view in the early modern Netherlands. Visuality, political landscape, and falconry
7. Anja Novak. Precarious ground. An experiential approach to Land art in Flevoland
8. Christopher Heuer. That area of terror. Robert Smithson’s lowlands
9. Anna-Rosja Haveman. Co-created by the Wadden Sea. Artistic and environmentalist perspectives on Han Jansen’s Waddenprojects

More information about the series can be found at brill.com/nkj