Sweet & Salt Water and the Dutch ; [published in conjunction with the Exhibition Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch at the Kunsthal Rotterdam (14 February - 10 June 2012)]
IntroductionWater 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.
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Rotterdam
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2012
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | IntroductionWater 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. 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | 304 S. zahlr. Ill |
| ISBN: | 9056628488 90-5662-848-8 9789056628482 978-90-5662-848-2 |