Sources of Regionalism in the Nineteenth Century. Architecture, Art and Literature

VAN SANTVOORT, Linda, Jan DE MAEYER et Tom VERSCHAFFEL (dir.), Sources of Regionalism in the Nineteenth Century. Architecture, Art and Literature, Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2008, 200 p.
ISBN 978-90-5867-649-8

RÉSUMÉ

Architectural concepts and styles seem to flourish on a variety of levels from the most local of contexts to the global. This book investigates regionalism, which is often conceived today as a late-nineteenth-century phenomenon because of the preservation and restoration movements that arose during that period.
Derived from the workshop “The Sources of Regionalism” held by the FWO research group World Views, Cultural Identities and Architecture in Western Europe, 1815-1940, the essays in this book examine the meaning of regionalism in architecture, art, and literature, its sources, and its cultural and historical background. The contributors focus on the nineteenth century and the years of the twentieth century before World War I and focus geographically on Western Europe, with an emphasis on Belgium, France, and England. Together, their essays provide a thorough examination of the complexity and multilayered quality of regionalism.

COLLABORATEURS

Robert Colls, University of Leicester
Dirk de Geest, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Jan De Maeyer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Wiel Kusters, Universiteit Maastricht
John McKean
Benoît Mihaïl, Belgian Federal Police Brussels, Belgium
Geert Palmaerts
Yves Schoonjans St Lucas School for Architecture, Brussels/Ghent, Belgium and Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Tom Sintobin, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands and FWO-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Eric Storm, Universiteit Leiden
Eveline Vanfraussen
Ellen Van Impe, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Linda Van Santvoort, Universiteit Gent
Tom Verschaffel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

BIOGRAPHIE

Linda Van Santvoort is a Professor of Art History at Ghent University. Jan De Maeyer is director of KADOC (Documentation and Research Center for Religion, Culture, and Society, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). Tom Verschaffel is Professor of History at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.