Faculty Postholders
Professor Craig Clunas
PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, London (1983)
Professor of the History of Art
Email: craig.clunas@hoa.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Art of China since c. 1400, particularly of the Ming period; methodology and historiography of art history
Supervision Interests
Art of China since c. 1400
Selected Publications:
- 'The Art Market in Seventeenth Century China: the Evidence of the Li Rihua Diary', History of Art and History of Ideas. Vol 1 (2003) pp. 201-223
- Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming 1470-1559. (London, 2004) 223pp.
- ''Not One Hair Different...' Wen Zhengming on Imaging the Dead in Ming Funerary Portraiture ' in Presence: the Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects. (Aldershot, 2006) pp. 31-45
- Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644. (London, 2007) 288pp.
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