Professor Craig Clunas
Position:
Professor of the History of Art
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Research Interests:
- Art in China since the Yuan period, including modern and contemporary art
- Culture and art of the Ming period
- Methodology and historiography of art history
Current Projects:
- The regional courts of the Ming hereditary aristocracy (Zongfan) and their culture
- Cultural reproduction and the reproduction of calligraphy in China
- Chinese painting and its audiences since 1600
Courses Taught:
- Authenticity and Replication in Art and Visual Culture (MSt History of Art)
- Introduction to the Historiography and Methods of Art History (MSt History of Art)
- Contributions to: Concepts and Methods in the History of Art and Visual Culture; Antiquity after Antiquity; Approaches to Visual Culture in World Art (BA History of Art)
- Supervision of doctoral research students on topics in Chinese art since the Yuan period
- Art in China Since 1911 (BA History of Art)
- Painting and Culture in Ming China (BA History and BA History of Art Special Subject)
Recent Publications:
- Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644 (London, 2007)
- Elegant Debts; the Social Art of Wen Zhengming (1470-1559) (London, 2004)
