"The colorful trash of the Flemish School": Netherlandish art and Russian literature
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| Publication date | 2008 |
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| Book title | Literature and beyond: Festschrift for Willem G. Weststeijn on the occasion of his 65th birthday |
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| Series | Pegasus-Oost-Europese Studies, 11-2 |
| Pages (from-to) | 885-906 |
| Publisher | Amsterdam: Pegasus |
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| Abstract |
Willem Weststeijn once began an essay with a thought experiment: what would have happened when the Netherlands had become a Socialist state, with a literary canon championing Theun de Vries as the nation’s prime author? In the realm of the visual arts, there is no need for this kind of speculation. Soviet cultural historians allotted a key role to Dutch art, often confounding it with Flemish art. Their judgment tacked on to ideas that had taken root in the Russian literary imagination already in the nineteenth century. |
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