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.

 

I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher and the scientific curator of the Japanese Donation at UCLouvain (Belgium), a collection of more than 3,200 titles dating from the 12th century to the 1920s and comprising nearly 14,000 volumes, preserved in the Rare Books Reserve of UCLouvain Libraries.​