Reclaiming the Landscape as a Common Good in Urbanized Belgium: The Protest Happening Raveel op de Leie Situated in the Socio-Political Context of the Belgian 1960s and 1970s
During the mid-1960s, a part of the Belgian population grew weary of the government’s flawed and untransparent policies for environmental safeguarding and urban planning. They argued that the landscape was reduced to a source of economic profit and advocated for a landscape-sensitive approach to prevent further estrangement from the environment. Roger Raveel’s art wants audiences to experience their contemporary environment in a new way by envisioning modern objects integrated into his rural Heimat. Yet, when a river is threatened for economical gain, his art is used in a protest happening. De... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Hart, Iss 11, Pp 95-116 (2022) |
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Universidad de Los Andes
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Schlagwörter: | new social movements / environmentalism / modernism / roger raveel / landscape cultivation / art criticism / nuevos movimientos sociales / ambientalismo / modernismo / planificación del paisaje / crítica de arte / planificação da paisagem / novos movimentos sociais / Fine Arts / N |
Sprache: | Englisch Spanish Portuguese |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27310560 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.25025/hart11.2022.04 |
During the mid-1960s, a part of the Belgian population grew weary of the government’s flawed and untransparent policies for environmental safeguarding and urban planning. They argued that the landscape was reduced to a source of economic profit and advocated for a landscape-sensitive approach to prevent further estrangement from the environment. Roger Raveel’s art wants audiences to experience their contemporary environment in a new way by envisioning modern objects integrated into his rural Heimat. Yet, when a river is threatened for economical gain, his art is used in a protest happening. Despite the media attention and the arguments for a landscape-sensitive alternative, the protest was ineffective and Raveel ultimately resorted to lobbying, illustrating Belgium’s faulty policies.