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Professor Emeritus, Asian Art History, University of Sydney

John Clark is Professor Emeritus in Art History at the University of Sydney where he taught for twenty years. His Asian Modernities: Chinese and Thai art of the 1980s and 1990s, Sydney, Power Publications, 2010, won the Best Art Book Prize of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand in 2011. Modernities of Chinese Art, and Modernities of Japanese Art came out from Brill in 2010 & 2013. Contemporary Asian Art at Biennials is scheduled for late-2017 and the two-volume The Asian Modern, 1850s – 1990s with twenty-five Asian artists in five generations between 1850s and 1990s, is scheduled to appear in 2019.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor Emeritus, Asian Art History, University of Sydney

Education

  • 1986 
    University of Sheffield, PhD, Japanese Foreign Policy and the War in Vietnam