scholarly journals Dutch Face-ism. Portrait Photography and Völkisch Nationalism in the Netherlands

Fascism ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remco Ensel
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Physical Appearance ◽  
True Believer ◽  
Illustrated Books ◽  
Gerhard Richter

This article takes its cue from an essay by Gerhard Richter on Walter Benjamin and the fascist aestheticization of politics. It examines the portrait photography of Dutch photographer W.F. Van Heemskerck Düker, who was a true believer in the ideology of a Greater Germany. He published a number of illustrated books on the Dutch Heimat and worked together with German photographers Erna Lendvai-Dircksen and Erich Retzlaff. When considering what type of photography was best suited to capture the photographic aesthetics of the fascist nation, the article argues that within the paradigm of the Greater German Heimat we find not so much a form of anthropometric photography, as exemplified by the work of Hans F.K. Günther, as a genre of Heimat portraits that was better equipped to satisfy the need to unify two crucial structural oppositions in fascist ideology, namely mass versus individuality, and physical appearance versus inner soul.

Inheriting Walter Benjamin by Gerhard Richter

MLN ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 782-786
Author(s):  
Nell Wasserstrom
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Gerhard Richter

Turmoil for Adoptees during their Adolescence?

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
René A.C. Hoksbergen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Physical Appearance ◽  
Emotional Problems ◽  
Developmental Tasks ◽  
Problem Behaviour ◽  
Emotional Tension ◽  
Parent Reports ◽  
Research Studies

During the last two decades in the Netherlands foreign adoptions have increased compared to domestic adoptions. In this paper, research studies concerning causes and characteristics of problem behaviour of adopted adolescents are discussed. Adopted adolescents, in particular, face more emotional problems compared to their nonadopted peers, as evidenced in parent reports. However, on the basis of reports from adopted adolescents, coping with four of Havighurst’s developmental tasks is satisfactory. However, adopted adolescents report more feelings of insecurity and emotional tension concerning their gender experience with regard to their physical appearance compared to their Dutch peers. Based on the research reviewed and clinical experience at the Utrecht Adoption Centre, risk factors in adoption are summarised.

Viewing Japan and China through Dirk Boer’s Panorama, 1835–1838

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-128
Author(s):  
Christina Baird ◽  
Helen Backx-Palsgraaf
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Physical Appearance ◽  
Chinese Art ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Japan And China

Abstract Dirk Boer (1803–1877) contributed to the popularization of Japanese and Chinese art in The Netherlands. He is best remembered for his ‘Groote Koninklijke Bazar’ or Grand Royal Bazaar which, during the nineteenth century, had an international reputation for exhibiting and selling Japanese and Chinese products, alongside a much wider and more diverse selection of goods. In this study, some of Dirk Boer’s earlier achievements and activities pre-dating the Groote Koninklijke Bazar will be discussed and Boer’s Chinese and Japanese Panorama will be highlighted as an illustration of the interest in China and Japan in The Netherlands during the 1830s. Contemporary reports are discussed with a view to establishing something of Boer’s Panorama’s physical appearance and popularity. Analogies will be drawn to similar exhibitions, cosmoramas and panoramas, both in Britain and The Netherlands.

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