Image-thinking
Subtitle: five centuries of images in Antwerp
By: [edited by Bart De Baere, Iris Kockelbergh, Nico Van Hout]
Contributors: Museum aan de Stroom (Antwerp, Belgium); Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Belgium); Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen; Museum Plantin-Moretus. Prentenkabinet
Publisher: BAI
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Schoten
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9789085865773
Subjects: Art; Exhibitions; Flemish Painting
Description: The exhibition takes a closer look on the evolution of image culture from the Middle Ages until now, using masterpieces from the prestigious art collections in Antwerp. The economical success from the Antwerp harbour generates an important turning point in 16th and 17th century art. Not only the rich and clerical order works of art, also the bourgeois class get interested in buying art. A creative boost is the logic consequence. In the exhibition and catalogue the old masters such as Jan van Eyck, Peter Paul Rubens and Jacob Jordaens are confronted with contemporary artists such as Luc Tuymans, Jan Fabre and Koen van den Broek.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition "Masterpieces in the MAS: Five Centuries of Images in Antwerp", held at the Museum aan de Stroom, May 17, 2011-Dec. 30, 2012.

At head of title: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Museum Plantin-Moretus/Prentenkabinet, Museum aan de Stroom.

"MAS books."

"Published by BAI (Schoten) for MAS (Museum aan de Stroom), in collaboration with Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KMSKA), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA) and Museum Plantin-Moretus/Prentenkabinet (MPM/PK)"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.