Researcher

Griet Bonne

Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Audiovisual art and digital media not elsewhere classified
    • Visual arts not elsewhere classified
Expertise
mechanical reproductions illustrated art books art documentaries Nineteenth century Twentieth century Film and television Photography archive and museum studies
Bio
Griet Bonne studied Art History and Curatorial Studies at Ghent University. In her PhD-project (Ghent University, FWO-fellowship), she examines mechanical reproducibility through the case study of Rubens. In 2019 Bonne co-curated the exhibition "Copyright Cobra: Photography, Film, Prints" (VANDENHOVE, Ghent). Recent publications include “The Copy and the Real Thing” (Artl@s Bulletin, 2021), “Moved by Rubens” (Transcript Verlag, 2021), “Visualizing Rubens in Modern Art History” (Bielefeld University Press, 2022) and “Panoramic Ambitions” (History of Photography, 2023). On 9-10 February, 2023, she organized the symposium and film program "Rubens in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: (Un)packing the Rubenianum Library" (Rubenianum and De Cinema, Antwerp).