Freya Terryn, PhD

I am a scholar of the arts and visual culture 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. Within these topics, I explore issues relating to the interaction between governing bodies and artists, artistic and commercial collaboration, pictorial quotation and intertextuality, and exhibition culture.

 

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 Heritage Collection of the UCLouvain Libraries.​