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David James Clarke (born 1954) is honorary professor of modern and contemporary art history at the University of Hong Kong where he taught from 1986 to 2017.[1] He was born in Somerset, England, earned his PhD in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, in 1983. As an art historian he specialises in the art of Europe, North America and China from the eighteenth century to the present day. He is also active as a visual artist, particularly as a photographer.[2]

Selected publications

  • Modern Art: A Graphic Guide, Camden Press, 1987.
  • The Influence of Oriental Thought on Postwar American Painting and Sculpture, Garland Publishing, 1988.
  • Art and Place: Essays on Art from a Hong Kong Perspective, Hong Kong University Press, 1996.
  • Modern Chinese Art, Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Hong Kong Art: Culture and Decolonization, Reaktion Books, 2001.[3]
  • Reclaimed Land: Hong Kong in Transition, Hong Kong University Press, 2002.
  • Hong Kong x 24 x 365: A Year in the Life of a City, Hong Kong University Press, 2007.
  • Water and Art, Reaktion Books, 2010.
  • Chinese Art and its Encounter with the World, Hong Kong University Press, 2011.
  • Interruptions (co-author with Xu Xi), University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 2016.
  • China-Art-Modernity: A Critical Introduction to Chinese Visual Expression from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century to the Present Day, Hong Kong University Press, 2019.

Online projects

  • "A history of modern art in 73 lectures by David Clarke". YouTube. 4 June 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  • "Hong Kong Art Archive". arthistory.hku.hk. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  • "Hong Kong in Transition: 1995-2020 - An open access photographic archive for anyone interested in Hong Kong and its history". arthistory.hku.hk. Retrieved 23 March 2022.

References

  1. ^ "David J. CLARKE | Department of Art History". arthistory.hku.hk. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  2. ^ "CV". arthistory.hku.hk. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Project MUSE - Hong Kong Art: Culture and Decolonization (review)". Muse.jhu.edu. 29 January 2004. doi:10.1353/cri.2004.0029. Retrieved 24 June 2017.


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