Observations of A Celebration NL&NY 2009 Interviews with Roger Panetta, Frans Timmermans, Henrik Spoon, Edwin Smulders, Ben van Berkel, Donna Henes, Angela Haines & Gert Tetteroo, Alexandra Oswald, Bruno Doedens, George Way and Henk Scholten
Amsterdam: Eva Pel, 2009.
Illustrated by Eva Pel. Trade Paperback. Near Fine with no dust jacket. Item #6556
ISBN: 9081496514
Slight wear. Crisp trade paperback. Author's CV and publicity card laid in. Pagination begins at page 4; it is not apparent that there are any missing pages. ; [a project by] Eva Pel ; [ed. by Claudia Doms ... et al. ; images by Eva Pel ... et al.]. "This Summer, I went to conduct fieldwork in New York. My plan was to visit all the events the Dutch government (co-)organized to celebrate 400 years of Dutch-American relations. To be more precise: to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson and his ship the "Halve Maen" in nowadays New York. I wanted to see the events to get an idea of how the Netherlands is being represented in New York. What does it mean to be Dutch? Which audience does the festival reach? And what does the Netherlands want to show to New Yorkers about our history, present and future? Curious about other people's views on these topics, I interviewed eleven Dutch and American people, who were in one or another way involved in the NY400 celebrations." - Preface. ; 129 pages.
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