John Clark
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John Clark, Prof. Dr. phil., is Professor in Art History at the University of Sydney. From 2004 – 2006 he is working on the new Biennales in Asia under an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. He received a postgraduate certificate in Fine Art (Painting) from Croydon College and completed his Ph.D. in politics at Sheffield University. Over the course of his academic carreer he has held numerous scholarships and has been a Visiting Professor at universities and institutions in Europe, Japan, Australia, and Asia. He is fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA) and was awarded the Centenary Medal of the Commonwealth of Australia in 2003. His recent and current research includes Modern Japanese Art since Meiji, Academic painting and the avant-garde in recent Chinese oil painting, the problems of modernity in art beyond Europe and N. America, recently with particular focus on India, Indonesia and Thailand, comparative work on art in China and Thailand of the 1980s and 1990s towards a new definition of modernity in art, the reception of contemporary Asian art and international Biennales and Triennales.
His books include: Modern Asian Art (Honolulu, University of Hawai’I Press, 1998). His recent work includes two book drafts now in submission: Modernities of Chinese Art and Modernities compared: Chinese and Thai Art in the 1980s and 1990s.
