Q&A with Professor Craig Clunas
| Dates: | 14 October 2020 |
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| Times: | 17:15 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Prof Craig Clunas, |
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Q&A with Professor Craig Clunas
'The Modernity of Chinese Art in the Early Twentieth Century'
Professor Clunas will discuss his lecture on 'The Modernity of Chinese Art in the Early Twentieth Century' at 5.15pm on Wednesday 14 October.
Watch Professor Clunas's Lecture: https://video.manchester.ac.uk/faculties/84a42e9f3376057e09c91fdb89587a16/55ff56bb-ecbd-434a-b0a9-4fa06280de2b
For information about the Zoom live discussion please contact Dr Cordelia Warr (cordelia.warr@manchester.ac.uk).
Professor Craig Clunas held the chair of art history at Oxford from 2007 to 2018, the first scholar of Asian art to do so. Much of his work concentrates on the Ming period (1368-1644), with additional interests in the art of 20th century and contemporary China. Before coming to Oxford he 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 is the author of Art in China (1997, second edition 2009) in the Oxford History of Art Series, and his other books include Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China (1991); Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China (1996); Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China (1997); Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming, 1470-1559 (2004); Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644 (2007), based on the 2004 Slade Lectures, and Screen of Kings: Art and Royal Power in Ming China (2013). Several of these books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean. His most recent book is Chinese Painting and its Audiences, published by Princeton University Press in 2017. He is currently researching the transnational history of Chinese art in the short 20th century, from 1911 to 1976.
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