Sweet & salt
Subtitle: water and the Dutch
By: Tracy Metz and Maartje van den Heuvel ; [translation, Pierre Bouvier (texts by Tracy Metz), Don Mader (texts by Maartje van den Heuvel)]
Contributors: Heuvel, Maartje van den; Kunsthal Rotterdam; Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden
Publisher: NAi Publishers; Distributed in North America by ARTBOOK/D.A.P.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rotterdam [Netherlands]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789056628482
Subjects: In art; Management; Water resources development; Water in art; Land use; Water use; Reclamation of land; Water; Water and architecture; Planning; Architecture; Water-supply; Landscape architecture; Pictorial works; History
Other titles: Water and the Dutch
Description: Water management runs in the blood of the Dutch. Draining the Netherlands and keeping it dry is a process they started centuries ago and continue to this day. But will this still suffice? In the project Sweet & Salt (book and exhibition) author and journalist Tracy Metz and curator Maartje van den Heuvel demonstrate, in text and images, how the Netherlands shapes its evolving relationship with water. The sea level is rising, rivers are swelling, there is more rain, there are more storms and sometimes there's a drought. There is a growing awareness that not just dikes and dams but natural processes too play a significant role in our security. This is the greatest challenge currently facing Dutch designers. There is also increasing attention given to the aesthetics of the water landscape being designed.
Notes: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Sweet&salt : Water and the Dutch' at the Kunsthal Rotterdam (14 February-10 June 10 2012). The exhibition was produced in collaboration with Leiden University"--P. 295.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-291).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Water in pictures : from seascapes to VJ art; title: Sweet, salt and saline; title: Conflict; title: Dikes and polders; title: Concord; title: Big water; title: Profit; title: Wet city; title: Pleasure; title: Catastrophe; title: Myth; title: Water and the Dutch.