Freya Terryn, PhD

I am a scholar of the arts and visual cultures of 18th- to the early 20th-century Japan, with a particular focus on the visual and textual products of the printing industry - including prints, illustrated books, and paintings. My research examines the relationships between governing bodies and artists, artistic and commercial collaboration, practices of pictorial quotation, exhibition culture, and the formation of European collections of Japanese art.

 

Currently, I work at the Institute for the Study of Civilisations, Arts and Lettres of UCLouvain, where I conduct a research project on the 1920s Japanese donation (almost 14 000 volumes dating from the 12th century to the 1920s), that is part of the Rare Books Reserve of the UCLouvain Libraries.​