Under the leadership of Paul De Vree, De Tafelronde is a forum for avant-garde literature and the major advocate for concrete and visual poetry in Flanders. It also keeps a finger on the pulse here of the post-War expressive arts. With Antwerp as a basis, the paper especially has an eye for the developments of the new generation that energetically gives shape to the neo-avant-garde. In 1960, when the abstract ‘New Flemish School’ breaks with the G 58 initiatives in the Hessenhuis, De Tafelronde supplies the group with a voice. The special friendship between Chief Editor De Vree and the painter Jef Verheyen, who together write a manifesto of the movement, ensures for a cross pollination of ideas. As such, contacts arise between writers such as Ivo Michiels and Guy Vaes as well as plastic artists like Guy Mees (1935 - 2003), Bert de Leeuw (1926 - 2007) and Paul van Hoeydonck (1925). In addition, the valuable international contacts of Verheyen with Lucio Fontana (1899 - 1968), Yves Klein (1928 - 1962) and Günther Uecker (1930), among others, provide an international dimension.
