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Creative Chance
Surrealist Art and Literature from the Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong Collection
2021 || Paperback || Saskia van Kampen e.a. || Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's Surrealism collection is world famous, but this Boijmans Study is not devoted to the oeuvres of great names in the canon like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte. Instead, it tells the story of the idiosyncratic finds made by the Dutch collectors Laurens Vancrevel and his wife Frida de Jong. Long before museums started to take notice, the couple had collected art and poetry by then relatively unknown Surrealists. Over the years, they let themselves be guided by c...
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Pieces of a Nation
South Sudanese Heritage and Museum Collections
2021 || Paperback || Zoe Cormack e.a. || Sidestone Press
South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. Independence prompted discussions about South Sudanese identity and shared history, in which material objects and cultural heritage featured as vitally important resources. However, the long-term effects of colonialism and conflict had largely precluded any concerted attempts to preserve material culture within the country; museums remained in Khartoum, the capital of the formally united Sudan. Fu...