Sweet & salt : water and the Dutch / txt
Sweet and salt Water and the Dutch
Tracy Metz and Maartje van den Heuvel.
- 296 p. : ill. ; col.; maps ; photo. ; 28 cm. book
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Sweet & salt : Water and the Dutch' at the Kunsthal Rotterdam (14 February-10 June 2012). The exhibition was produced in collaboration with Leiden University"--Page 295.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-291).
Introduction 6 -- Water in pictures : from seascapes to VJ art 13 -- Sweet, salt and saline 22 -- Conflict 44 -- Dikes and polders 74 -- Concord 96 -- Big water 122 -- Profit 144 -- Wet city 172 -- Pleasure 196 -- Catastrophe 224 -- Myth 246 -- Water and the Dutch 280.
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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Hydraulic engineering--Netherlands. Water resources development--Netherlands. Water and architecture--Netherlands. Water in art. Art, Dutch.