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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 whose research interests span the history of Chinese art from the ancient period to the contemporary and whose publications explore wide-reaching concepts. He has been active in curating museum exhibitions and organizing international shows of contemporary art. Through his initiative, the Center for the Art of East Asia was established to extend the University's activity in the field of Asian art beyond the confines of the classroom, department, and campus.

His major works on traditional Chinese art include The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art (Standford,1989); Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture (Standford,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). Editor, Between Han and Tang, 3 vols. (Beijing, 2000-2002) co-edited with Katherine Tsiang, Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005).  His books and edited volumes on Chinese 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), and 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). See, also, Department of Art History profile.