Center for the Art of East Asia

AboutCommunityEvents and PublicationsOpportunitiesProjects and Resources

 

  Community


 



 
Professor Wu Hung
Harrie H. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College;
Consulting Curator, Smart Museum of Art

Wu Hung is a preeminent scholar in Chinese art and visual culture who has published widely on both traditional and contemporary Chinese art. His major works on traditional Chinese art include The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art (Stanford, 1989); Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture (Stanford,1995); The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting (London, 1996); and Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (co-author; New Haven and London , 1997). Between Han and Tang, 3 vols. (chief editor, Beijing, 2002), Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture (co-edited with Katherine R. Tsiang, Cambridge, 2005). His books and edited volumes on Chinese contemporary art include Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, 1999); Exhibiting Experimental Art in China (Chicago, 2000); Chinese Art at the Crossroads: Between Past and Future, Between East and West ( editor; Hong Kong, 2001), Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Art in China (1990-2000); Between Past and Future: New photography and Video from China (with Christopher Phillips, Chicago, 2004), Rong Rong and Inri: Tui - Transfiguration (editor; 2005), Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space (London, 2005).