Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Heuvel, Maartje van den
2. Kunsthal Rotterdam
3. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden

Description

1. 296 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 28 cm

Summary

1. 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.

Alternative title

1. Sweet and salt
2. Water and the Dutch

Subject

1. Wasser
2. Kunst
3. Landschaft
4. Wassernutzung
5. Water and architecture > Netherlands > Exhibitions
6. Water in art > Exhibitions
7. Water > Netherlands > Exhibitions
8. Water > Netherlands > Management > Exhibitions
9. Reclamation of land > Netherlands > Exhibitions
10. Hydraulic engineering > Netherlands
11. Water resources development > Netherlands
12. Art, Dutch > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
13. Art, Dutch
14. Hydraulic engineering
15. Water and architecture
16. Water in art
17. Water resources development
18. Photographie aérienne > Pays-Bas > Catalogues d'exposition
19. Inondations > Maîtrise > Pays-Bas
20. Gestion des ressources en eau > Pays-Bas
21. Niederlande
22. Netherlands
23. Nederland
24. Pays-Bas > Étude et enseignement
25. Mer du Nord > Étude et enseignement

Contents

1. Introduction -- Water in pictures : from seascapes to VJ art -- Sweet, salt and saline -- Conflict -- Dikes and polders -- Concord -- Big water -- Profit -- Wet city -- Pleasure -- Catastrophe -- Myth -- Water and the Dutch.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Sweet & salt : Water and the Dutch' at the Kunsthal Rotterdam (14 February-10 June 2012). The exhibition was produced in collaboration with Leiden University"--Page 295.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-291).