Historism and Cultural Identity in the Rhine-Meuse Region

Tensions between Nationalism and Regionalism in the Nineteenth Century

Wolfgang Cortjaens (Editor), Jan De Maeyer (Editor), Tom Verschaffel (Editor),

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Series: KADOC-Artes 10

Category: Art, History, History 1800-present

Language: English

ISBN: 9789058676665

Publication date: December 17, 2008

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Number of pages: 432

Size: 280 x 225 x 30 mm

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Based on the cultural insight that ‘historism’ – understood as the projection of the past into the present by artistic means, or the ‘invention of tradition’ – always occurs in close connection with the emergence of nation states, this volume describes for the first time the cultural and denominational character and development of the Maas-Rhine region during the period between the French Revolution and the First World War. Seventeen contributions shed new and revealing light on the cultural identity of this Catholic-dominated core region of Europe, using the defining term ‘historism’ as the historiographical element that unifies the book’s four sections (Social and Church Historical Context, The Organisational Structure of Ecclesiastical Art, Centres of Art, ‘Grenzgänger’: between Theory and Praxis).

An Upside-down World. Regional Identity as a Catalyst for the Development of the Modern Nation-States. An Introduction

Verkehrte Welt. Regionale Identität als Katalysator moderner Nationenbildung. Eine Einführung
Wolfgang Cortjaens, Jan De Maeyer & Tom Verschaffel

1. SOCIAL AND CHURCH HISTORICAL CONTEXT/GESELLSCHAFTLICHER UND KIRCHENHISTORISCHER KONTEXT

Nationale Katholizismen, die (kirchen-)politische Situation und die grenzüber-schreitende Kommunikation im Raum Rhein-Mosel-Maas zwischen 1815 und dem Ende der Kulturkampfzeit
Bernhard Schneider

In Search of the Greatest Specificity. Some Observations on Regionalism
Tom Verschaffel

Modelllandschaft Rhein-Maas? Topographische und kulturpolitische Ordnungskrite-rien in der preußischen Kunstgeschichte des Vormärz: Karl Schnaase, Franz Kugler und Franz Mertens und die Konstruktion nationaler und regionaler ‘Schulen’
Wolfgang Cortjaens

Die Sprachverhältnisse in Niederländisch-Limburg, unter besonderer Berück-sichtigung der kirchlichen Amtssprache
Antoine Jacobs

2. THE ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE OF ECCLESIASTICAL ART /ORGANISATIONSSTRUKTUREN KIRCHLICHER KUNST

The Aid Societies of the Cologne Cathedral Construction Society in the Area of Today’ s Euregion Meuse-Rhine
Wolfgang Cortjaens & Klaus Hardering

Pro Arte Christiana. Catholic Art Guilds, Gothic Revival and the Cultural Identity of the Rhine-Meuse Region
Jan De Maeyer

Kirchenschätze des Rhein-Maas-Gebietes im 19. Jahrhundert. Historisierung und Präsentation mittelalterlicher Goldschmiedekunst im Kontext medialer Aneignung
Wolfgang Cortjaens

3. CENTRES OF ART / KUNSTZENTREN

The Workshop Cuypers/Stoltzenberg. Its Beginnings (°1852) and its Consequences for the Development of Roermond as a Centre of Arts
Lidwien Schiphorst

Roermond as Centre for Religious Art
Antoine Jacobs & Wies van Leeuwen

Die Utrechter neugotische Schule. Nationale Bestrebungen, grenzüberschreitende Wirkung
Arjen Looyenga

Sprache des Materials, Politik der Form. Der katholische Kirchenbau in den linksrheinischen Teilen der preußischen Rheinprovinz und im Rhein-Maas-Gebiet 1815-1914
Wolfgang Cortjaens

Die Entwicklung Kevelaers zum katholischen Kunstzentrum im 19. Jahrhundert. Kulturkampf und Kunst, Wallfahrt und Wirtschaft
Peter Lingens

Dismantlement or Reformulation? The Dialectic of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Liège
Jean-Patrick Duchesne & Isabelle Graulich

4. ‘GRENZGÄNGER’: PROTAGONISTS OF INTERREGIONAL EXCHANGE /GRENZGÄNGER: INTERREGIONALER AUSTAUSCH IN THEORIE UND PRAXIS

Der Architekt und Bauhistoriker Lambert von Fisenne (1852-1903). Grenzenloser Historismus
Antoine Jacobs

Reinhold Vasters (1827-1909), an Aachen Catholic and Forger. Ecclesiastical and Sacral Goldsmiths’ Art for Church and Commerce
Miriam Krautwurst August Reichensperger (1808-1895), the Journeys abroad of an Art Theorist and Politician
Udo Liessem

Der Maler Jules Helbig (1821-1906), ein Grenzgänger zwischen Rhein und Maas
Anna Bergmans

Bibliography /Bibliographie

Index

Wolfgang Cortjaens

Wolfgang Cortjaens is PhD in Art History (Universität Aachen). His research focuses on 19th-century art and architecture.

Jan De Maeyer

Jan De Maeyer is professor emeritus of contemporary church history at KU Leuven and honorary director of KADOC-KU Leuven. His research focuses on political and social Catholicism, material Christianity, and the development of religious institutions and congregations.

Tom Verschaffel

Tom Verschaffel is professor of cultural history at KU Leuven.

'... een buitengewoon informatieve en fraai geïllustreerde bundel...'
Lodewijk Winkeler (Nijmegen), Trajecta Jrg. 18, 2009, aflevering 2

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"Historism and Cultural Identity in the Rhine-Meuse Region" was edited by Wolfgang Cortjaens, Jan De Maeyer and Tom Verschaffel.

Wolfgang Cortjaens is PhD in Art History (Universität Aachen). His research focuses on 19th-century art and architecture.

Tom Verschaffel is professor of cultural history at KU Leuven.

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The richly illustrated peer-reviewed book series KADOC Artes offers new insights into the material cultures and legacies of religions in Europe and the world since 1750 from interreligious and transnational perspectives. By means of monographs and edited volumes, the series explores thematic frontiers and embraces innovative methodological approaches in heritage studies. Taken together, KADOC Artes and its companion series KADOC Studies in Religion, Culture and Society represent a diptych featuring the material and immaterial cultures and legacies of religions in Europe and the world from the 18th century onwards.

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Elena Arigita Maza (Universidad de Granada)
Florian Bock (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
Timothy Brittain‐Catlin (University of Cambridge)
James Chappel (Duke University)
Kim Christiaens (KADOC-KU Leuven)
Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin)
James Kennedy (Utrecht University)
Franziska Metzger (PH Luzern)
Patrick Pasture (MoSa‐KU Leuven) - chairman
Isabelle Saint‐Martin (EPHE Paris)
Thijl Sunier (VU Amsterdam)
Árpád von Klimó (Catholic University of America)
Veerle De Laet (Leuven University Press)
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