Touring Belgium

Touring Belgium presents a wide range of printed media – from travel guides and collected letters to albums, from picture postcards to bibliographies and war-time propaganda – to explore how the print culture developing in the wake of travel and tourism helped to establish a national architectural h...

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description Touring Belgium presents a wide range of printed media – from travel guides and collected letters to albums, from picture postcards to bibliographies and war-time propaganda – to explore how the print culture developing in the wake of travel and tourism helped to establish a national architectural heritage. Covering material from the period of Belgian independence through the aftermath of World War I, eight historians of art and architecture each situate one main publication against a dazzling background of nineteenth and early twentieth-century cultural discourses, revolutions in image reproduction, and emerging heritage management. Reproductions in the middle part of the book present the core publications as material objects. These printed artifacts bring into view a nascent heritage that ranges from gothic town halls and dead cities to modern factories and railroad infrastructure; often there is little distinction between what threatens or enshrines the national patrimony. Writers like Schnaase and Hugo, museum conservators like Schayes and Kervyn de Lettenhove, symbolist painters like Hannotiau, innovative lithographers like Simonau, and publishers like Géruzet or the Touring-club de Belgique all bring their concerns to bear on what they see as Belgian heritage. Their preoccupations with patrimony help to craft Belgium as a nation with a history at the crossroads of Europe – historic architecture becomes a reality embedded in the territory as much as an imagery fabricated in print.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1720192026-02-13T13:26:20Z Touring Belgium Delbeke, Maarten Liefooghe, Maarten The built heritage of Belgium Comparative & cultural studies through literature Museology and heritage studies Architecture thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies Touring Belgium presents a wide range of printed media – from travel guides and collected letters to albums, from picture postcards to bibliographies and war-time propaganda – to explore how the print culture developing in the wake of travel and tourism helped to establish a national architectural heritage. Covering material from the period of Belgian independence through the aftermath of World War I, eight historians of art and architecture each situate one main publication against a dazzling background of nineteenth and early twentieth-century cultural discourses, revolutions in image reproduction, and emerging heritage management. Reproductions in the middle part of the book present the core publications as material objects. These printed artifacts bring into view a nascent heritage that ranges from gothic town halls and dead cities to modern factories and railroad infrastructure; often there is little distinction between what threatens or enshrines the national patrimony. Writers like Schnaase and Hugo, museum conservators like Schayes and Kervyn de Lettenhove, symbolist painters like Hannotiau, innovative lithographers like Simonau, and publishers like Géruzet or the Touring-club de Belgique all bring their concerns to bear on what they see as Belgian heritage. Their preoccupations with patrimony help to craft Belgium as a nation with a history at the crossroads of Europe – historic architecture becomes a reality embedded in the territory as much as an imagery fabricated in print. 2026-02-13T13:26:12Z 2026-02-13T13:26:12Z 2025 book 9782503612867 9782503612874 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/172019 eng Architectural Crossroads application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503612867-1 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ACSHA-EB.5.138156 Brepols 10.1484/M.ACSHA-EB.5.138156 10.1484/M.ACSHA-EB.5.138156 337417f5-5e42-49d3-8b32-3867e1572190 9782503612867 9782503612874 11 224 Turnhout open access
spellingShingle The built heritage of Belgium
Comparative & cultural studies through literature
Museology and heritage studies
Architecture
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies
Touring Belgium
title Touring Belgium
title_full Touring Belgium
title_fullStr Touring Belgium
title_full_unstemmed Touring Belgium
title_short Touring Belgium
title_sort touring belgium
topic The built heritage of Belgium
Comparative & cultural studies through literature
Museology and heritage studies
Architecture
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies
topic_facet The built heritage of Belgium
Comparative & cultural studies through literature
Museology and heritage studies
Architecture
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies
url https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/172019