Projects
Digital Archive of Belgian Neo-Avant-garde Periodicals (DABNAP). University of Antwerp
The Reception of European Cultures in British Romantic Review Periodicals, 1809-1827 KU Leuven
My PhD studied two British journals founded in the early nineteenth century. In British art history, this period is called the Romantic period: though it is more complex than that, emotions and nature were more important to Romantic artists than order and structure. Well-known British Romantic artists are the painter John Constable, whose landscapes (with their impressive clouds) are worth millions today; or the poet William Wordsworth, at ...
Histoire croisée and cross fertilisation between Belgium and Great-Britain: Laurence Binyon, Olivier Destrée, their networks and periodicals, 1890-1930 Ghent University
The proposed research will map the network of poet and orientalist Laurence Binyon, with special interest for his Belgian contacts. Binyon (1869-1943) was an influential figure in Great-Britain at the time. His two interests, Northern European art and Asian art, were to be the basis for his links with artists all over the world. To map those links we will use the histoire croisée approach, an methodology which is still very new in literary ...
Play(s) of Féminitude. The role of female artists in Belgian theatre history 1830-1948 AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Hive Mind: Networks, collectivity, and mentorship amongst women artists, patrons, and collectors in the Low Countries in the early modern period. Ghent University
The project will explore the relationships amongst the women artists, collectors, and patrons in the circle proximate to the still-life painter Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) and examine their roles in that network. In doing so, the project will uncover, for example, the various ways in which the women influenced each other, helped each other develop technically, and shared resources. Relying upon an innovative methodology and an analytical ...
Artist Houses & Housing for Artists: Inquiry into the Typology of Artists’ Houses and Workshops in Antwerp (16th to 18th century). KU Leuven
Even today the image of 16th and 17th-century artists’ houses is still associated with iconic personalities such as Rubens. Reduced either to a facade or to a collector’s space as imagined in contemporary painting, it is mostly based on romanticized reconstructions. Yet historic towns held many active artists of different level and social status, in houses with workshops the size, character and value of which varied accordingly. My experience ...
Artists’ discourses in the legitimation of visual art: an analysis of discursive and aesthetic regimes in Flanders between 1965 and 2015 Ghent University
Using the state subsidy-archive for visual arts, this study focuses on how visual artists in Flanders have legitimated their artistic work between 1965-2015. The main objective is to provide a historical sociological analysis of how discourses about art (and its relation to society) evolved during this period characterized by significant macro-sociological changes.
ODIS: Database intermediary structures in Flanders. KU Leuven
ODIS (www.odis.eu) is a contextual web-database containing historical data-series on civil society and its heritage. It allows to centralize, interconnect and supplement biographical, organizational, documentary and many other data-series. ODIS uses repeatable field groups and directional input, systematized by means of validated vocabularies and thesauri. Its relational field groups allow to create clear and univocal links between records. ...
The Meiji prints in the collection of the Royal Museums for Art and History, Brussels. KU Leuven
Ukiyo-e 浮世絵, literally meaning or known under its English equivalent of ‘pictures of the floating world’, refers to the Japanese traditional genre of woodblock printing. Despite their contemporary exclusive character, Japanese woodblock prints were a popular commercial art that produced multicolored printed images in very large quantities at low cost to satisfy the growing middle-class clientele of Edo (present-day Tokyo). Integral to the ...