Hoe kwamen De verwoeste stad van Zadkine en de titelloze sculptuur van Naum Gabo naar Rotterdam? En wat betekende de 'percentageregeling' voor de stad? Het boek Beelden. Stadsverfraaiing in Rotterdam sinds 1940 werd geschreven door Siebe Thissen, hoofd van BKOR (het programma Beeldende Kunst & Openbare Ruimte van CBK Rotterdam). Het boek geeft een geschiedenis van de kunst in de openbare ruimte van Rotterdam, en dan vooral vanuit het perspectief van de kunstenaar die invloed wil uitoefenen op...

Polders can be found in coastal and alluvial lowlands all over the world. Water levels are artificially controlled so people can live and work in these reclaimed areas. This often centuries-old interaction between man and water had produced a rich variety of polder landscapes with their own cultural identity and spatial, functional, and ecological characteristics. These landscapes are under threat due to climate and economic change along with the standardization tendencies of globalization.

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Monografie van beeldend kunstenaar Lon Pennock (1945). 'Lon Pennock: Works' documenteert 15 jaar werk bestaande uit beelden en werk op papier. Met tekstbijdragen van Thomas Köllhofer en Frits Scholten.

By investigating simple forms seemingly borrowed from objective reality, Lon Pennock developed an aesthetic language related to that informing Concrete Art, which draws solely on such geometric elements as the rectangular solid, the cube, the cone or the cylinder.' - Thomas Köllhofer

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Mother’s Milk (re)constructs the story of Ilse, the author’s grandmother. Alienated in the psychiatric hospital of La Timone, in Marseille, Ilse resided there from 1952 until her death in 1983. Bringing together archival material, correspondences and conversations narrated via documentary poetry, Marie Ilse Bourlanges assembles the fragments of a family history hiding in plain sight.

An undertow of embodied memory meets the flow of institutional remembrance, drawing parallels between the ...