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 book collection (3,100 Japanese titles from the 12th century to the 1920s, comprising almost 14,000 volumes), that is part of the Heritage Collection of the UCLouvain Libraries.​