What if Vincent van Gogh suddenly realizes that he is... himself a sunflower? Or thinks he is?

This book recounts the story of this wellknown Dutch artist who, standing in the midst of his overwhelming sensory world, becomes aware just how thin the line between reality and dream world is. Did he live and work on a narrow borderline between truth and fantasy? Did he enter a different, perhaps higher frequency? How did all the images and observations come into him so intensely, and then spill ...

In de voetsporen van architecten in Brussel is een reeks boeken over architectuur in Brussel die in de vorm van een monografie het werk laat zien van architecten die na de Eerste Wereldoorlog hun stempel drukten op het bebouwde landschap van Brussel. Met de reeks willen we architecten onder de aandacht brengen van wie het werk minder bekend is bij het grote publiek, maar die erkenning verdienen omdat in hun productie een nauwe band met Brussel vervat zit. Elk boekdeel richt de schijnwerper op...

This book offers a unique journey through the history of still life in Belgium in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with Ensor as guide. Still life played an important role within the oeuvre of Belgian expressionist and symbolist painter James Ensor (1860-1949). The quality and significance of his intriguing, complex still lifes become clear when placed within the broader development of the genre in Belgium between 1830 and 1930. The still life, which in the early 19th century had degenerate...