Intermedial study of Belgian art as a network structured as seen through the lens of the mass media magazines in the interbellum years. (ARTPRESSE)

The KBR hosts extremely rich holdings in the field of popular and mass magazines and print culture in general, which offer a view of Belgian art that has never been taken into account in the canonical construction of Belgian art history. ARTPRESSE aims at studying and digitizing a representative part of this neglected corpus, both in order to challenge our canonical view of Belgian art history and to create a best practice helping the KBR to reorient its own archive and heritage policy into these new directions which are at the heart of the broader current intermedial turn of the digital age. Key in this regard is the collaboration between KBR and universities, which leads to the enlargement of both the notions of library and archive while producing new possibilities for new types of research and digitization.