Professor Craig Clunas FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2004
- Subjects
- Art history
Summary
Craig Clunas is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of Oxford, and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively on the art history and culture of China. Much of his work concentrates on the Ming period (1368-1644), with additional teaching and research interests in the art of 20th century and contemporary China. He has worked as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and taught art history at the University of Sussex and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford in 2004, and in 2012 he delivered the 61st AW Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, under the title 'Chinese Painting and its Audiences'. In 2014 he co-curated the exhibition Ming: 50 Years that Changed China at the British Museum. He is a Fellow of the Academia Europaea and an Honorary Research Fellow of the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou.
Current post
Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford
Past appointments
University of Oxford Professor of the History of Art
2007 -
SOAS, University Of London Percival David Professor of Chinese and East Asian Art
2003 - 2007
University of Sussex Professor of Art History, School of Cultural and Community Studies
1997 - 2003
Publications
Screen of Kings: Art and Royal Power in Ming China
Craig Clunas - Published in 2013 by University of Hawaii Press
Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644
Craig Clunas - Published in 2009 by Reaktion Books
Elegant Debts: the Social Art of Wen Zhengming
Craig Clunas - Published in 2004 by University of Hawaii Press
Superfluous Things: Social Status and Material Culture in Early Modern China
Craig Clunas - Published in 1991 by University of Hawaii Press
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