
Humanities & Social Sciences
Prof. David James CLARKE
- 2013 / 14 Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellow
- The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
- Associate Member
Biography
David Clarke is an honorary professor in the Department of Art History, University of Hong Kong, where he taught from 1986 to 2017. He is both an art historian and a visual artist. As an art historian he has written on American, European and Chinese art from the eighteenth century to the present day. Amongst his many sole-author books are: Water and Art (2010) and China - Art - Modernity (2019). Further information about Clarke can be found in a sequence of video interviews on the website of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council’s Oral History and Archives project: https://artsoralhistory.hk/en/interviewee-details/r0548807D2I/interview-video/r0548807D2I.
Research Areas
- Modern and contemporary art of China
- Modern art in the United States
- European art of the C19th and C20th
- China and the West in the C18th
- Visual art practice
