柯律格

Craig Clunas is an author whose writing centers on Chinese art history and visual culture. His publicly available personal information is limited: his dates of birth and death, nationality and education are not recorded in the available materials. The three works listed here show his interest in the links between art and political power, cross-cultural exchange and general art history. Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China examines the role of Ming princes in artistic patronage and the exercise of power; The Echo Chamber: Transnational Chinese Painting, 1897–1935 traces the circulation and resonance of Chinese painting in a transnational context in the early twentieth century; and Chinese Art, part of the Oxford History of Art series, offers a general survey of the development of Chinese art. His writing draws on specific historical contexts and balances scholarship with readability, and Chinese readers often place it in the category of art theory.