Still lifes from the Dresden Gemaldegalerie collection by painters from the Dutch and Flemish golden age, including Cornelis de Heem, Abraham Mignon and Rachel Ruysch.
The biographer of Clarice Lispector and Susan Sontag has spent years following the tracks of Dutch artists, exploring their work, their milieux and their subjects. This is a highly personal ... read more
A lavishly illustrated survey of the Dutch gardener's creations, several of which are now listed as National Monuments. Her life spanned the C20th and her gardens do express many of the Mode... read more
A starling shares his happiness at the beauty of the world with the owl, the woodpecker, etc - the kingfisher's reply is in mirror-writing, reflected in the water. Strong lino-cut illustrat... read more
Flemish collaboration in WW2, by the author of War and Turpentine, who bought an old house in Ghent only to discover, after twenty years, that a previous occupant was an SS officer. Hertmans... read more
Essays on the emergence of landscape as a subject fit for depiction in its own right in the C16th and C17th, which coincided with the expansion of Dutch commercial and colonial interests aro... read more