The lines of the landscape
By: [contributions by] Theo Baart [and twenty-seven others] ; idea and composition, Gaston Bekkers ; translation, Michele Hutchison [and eight others]
Contributors: Mik, Edzard, editor
Publisher: Architectura & Natura
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9789461400673
Subjects: Landscapes in art; Landscapes; Literary collections; Landscape photography; Dutch Arts; Dutch literature
Other titles: Gidsen voor kerkhistorisch onderzoek.
Description: 28 schrijvers en fotografen over het Nederlandse landschap / 28 writers and photographers on the Dutch landscape.0When we look at the Dutch landscape, what do we see? It is completely man-made, which is actually something that the Dutch are proud of. The dead straight ditch, the dyke round the polder, and the channelled stream are all drawn lines, hence lines charged with time. You follow them with your gaze, instead of taking them in at a glance, these typical medial lines with a telluric effect. More than 25 contributors ? photographers, artists, educators, writers, poets, designers ? offer their personal analyses and interpretations of the particularities of the Dutch landscape in this publication. A landscape whose beauty is found in its adaptability, and in the fact that it never stands still.
Notes: Title from cover.

"Edzard Mik is editor in chief of the literary magazine De gids.  The texts in this publication are translated from the issue about the Dutch landscape that he compiled with Dirk van Weelden"--Colophon.