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BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
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Born in Grimsby, England, in 1946. Lives in Sydney, Australia.
John Clark is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney where he is chair of the Department of Art History & Theory and acting director of the Power Institute, Foundation for Art & Visual Culture.
He organized the original conference and edited the papers on "Modernity in Asian Art", Wild Peony Press, Sydney & University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1993, translated Kuki Shûzô's "The Structure of 'Iki'", Power Publications, Sydney, 1997, and published his major work "Modern Asian Art", Craftsman House, Sydney & University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1998. He originated the concept for and co-curated the exhibition "Modern Boy, Modern Girl" at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1998. John Clark is co-editor, with Elise Tipton, of the exhibition symposium papers, "Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s", Sydney, Australian Humanities Research Foundation and Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2000. He is also editor and contributor to "Chinese Art at the end of the Millenium" (essays from the net journal "Contemporary Chinese Art Bulletin" at Chinese-Art.com, 2001). Recently he has published "Japanese Exchanges in Art, 1850s-1930s", Sydney, Power Publications, with some contributions by other scholars.
His current research investigates new definitions of modernity in art through a comparison of Chinese and Thai art of the 1980s and 1990s.
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