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Wu Hung Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, and the College; Director, Center for the Art of East Asia; Consulting Curator, Smart Museum of Art Areas of Expertise:
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Background:
Wu Hung specializes in early Chinese art, from the earliest years to the Cultural Revolution. His special research interests include relationships between visual forms (architecture, bronze vessels, pictorial carvings and murals, etc.) and ritual, social memory and political discourses. Also the consulting curator for the Smart Museum of Art, Hung is the author of Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century (University Of Chicago Press, 1999), Monumentality in Early Chinese Art (Stanford University Press, 1995), Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (Yale University Press, 1997), and the forthcoming Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space. Hung grew up in Beijing and studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. From 1973 to 1978 he served on the research staff at the Palace Museum, located inside Beijing's Forbidden City. He came to Chicago in 1994.
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News clippings:
Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art SEATTLE ART MUSEUM October 12, 2007 Zhang Huan: Avant-garde art from the factory floor Defending the Printed Page as the New China Stirred Mao Is Their Canvas Chameleon Mao, the Face of Tiananmen Square |
Press releases:
Smart Museum to present groundbreaking exhibition of contemporary Chinese art Art symposium illuminates Chinese art |
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Chronicle articles:
Accolades March 20, 2008 Chicago In the News 2007 Faculty Awards for Excellence in Graduate Teaching Digital reconstruction could resurrect original vision of many ancient artists, craftsmen Center for Art of East Asia leads project to create 3-D digital renderings of scrolls |
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