Background
Wu Hung was born on November 1, 1945, in Sichuan Province, China. He is the son of Baosan Wu and Jiaxin Sun.
8 Huajiadi S St, WangJing, Chaoyang Qu, Beijing Shi, China, 100096
Wu received his education at Central Academy of Fine Arts, graduating from it with a bachelor's degree in art history in 1968 and then with a master's degree in 1980.
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Wu received his doctorate in art history and anthropology from Harvard University in 1987.
4 Jingshan Front St, Dongcheng Qu, Beijing Shi, China, 100006
Wu started his career as an art historian at the Palace Museum in Beijing in 1973.
5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Since 1994, Wu holds the position of the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professorship at the Department of Art History and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, and is also the director of the Center for the Art of East Asia and the Consulting Curator at the Smart Museum at the same university.
8 Huajiadi S St, WangJing, Chaoyang Qu, Beijing Shi, China, 100096
Wu received his education at Central Academy of Fine Arts, graduating from it with a bachelor's degree in art history in 1968 and then with a master's degree in 1980.
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Wu received his doctorate in art history and anthropology from Harvard University in 1987.
4 Jingshan Front St, Dongcheng Qu, Beijing Shi, China, 100006
Wu started his career as an art historian at the Palace Museum in Beijing in 1973.
5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Since 1994, Wu holds the position of the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professorship at the Department of Art History and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, and is also the director of the Center for the Art of East Asia and the Consulting Curator at the Smart Museum at the same university.
(The funerary shrine of the Confucian scholar Wu Liang, cr...)
The funerary shrine of the Confucian scholar Wu Liang, created in AD 151, is the most important surviving pre-Buddhist monument in China and in this book the author finds the shrine comparable, in the comprehensiveness and cultural significance of its iconography, to the cathedral at Chartres or the Sistine Chapel.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804715297/?tag=2022091-20
1989
(This book contemplates a large problem: what is a traditi...)
This book contemplates a large problem: what is a traditional Chinese painting? Wu Hung answers this question through a comprehensive analysis of the screen, a major format and a popular pictorial motif in traditional China.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D1XYF4U/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(Remaking Beijing will reward anyone interested in modern ...)
Remaking Beijing will reward anyone interested in modern Chinese history, society, and art, or, more generally, in how urban renewal becomes intertwined with cultural and national politics.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226360784/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(This fascinating catalogue reveals how four leading Chine...)
This fascinating catalogue reveals how four leading Chinese artists—Chen Qiulin, Liu Xiaodong, Yun-Fei Ji, and Zhuang Hui—have confronted the Three Gorges Dam, employing a variety of contemporary techniques to respond to the massive forced migration of people, the demolition of ancient architecture, and the devastation of the local landscape.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0935573461/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(This richly illustrated book examines the changing signif...)
This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C2PINCS/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(Ground-breaking new assessment that demonstrates the amaz...)
Ground-breaking new assessment that demonstrates the amazing richness of one of the longest-running traditions in the whole of art history.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1861897812/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(Zooming In explores multiple histories of photographic pr...)
Zooming In explores multiple histories of photographic production in China. At its centre lies a large question: how has photography represented China and its people, collective history and memory, individual subjectivity and creativity?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N2TJZZT/?tag=2022091-20
2016
Wu Hung was born on November 1, 1945, in Sichuan Province, China. He is the son of Baosan Wu and Jiaxin Sun.
Wu received his education at Central Academy of Fine Arts, graduating from it with a bachelor's degree in art history in 1968 and then with a master's degree in 1980. Wu received his doctorate in art history and anthropology from Harvard University in 1987.
Wu started his career as an art historian at the Palace Museum in Beijing in 1973. Five years later, he immigrated to the United States and started working as an assistant professor and then as an associate professor at Harvard University from 1987 to 1993.
Since 1994, Wu holds the position of the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professorship at the Department of Art History and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, and is also the director of the Center for the Art of East Asia and the Consulting Curator at the Smart Museum at the same university.
Wu Hung has published widely on both traditional and contemporary Chinese art. His interest in both traditional and modern/contemporary Chinese art has led him to experiment with different ways to integrate these conventionally separate phases into new kinds of art historical narratives, as exemplified by his Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture (1995), The Double Screen: Medium and Representation of Chinese Pictorial Art (1996), Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square: the Creation of a Political Space (2005), A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture (2012), and Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China (2016). Several of his ongoing projects follow this direction to explore the interrelationship between art medium, pictorial image, and architectural space, the dialectical relationship between absence and presence in Chinese art and visual culture, and the relationship between art discourse and practice.
(This fascinating catalogue reveals how four leading Chine...)
2008(The funerary shrine of the Confucian scholar Wu Liang, cr...)
1989(This book contemplates a large problem: what is a traditi...)
1996(Remaking Beijing will reward anyone interested in modern ...)
1998(This richly illustrated book examines the changing signif...)
2012(Ground-breaking new assessment that demonstrates the amaz...)
2015(Zooming In explores multiple histories of photographic pr...)
2016Wu is a member of the American Academy of Art and Science.
Wu was first married to Jiang Dingsui. The couple had one child, Nina Jiang, but got divorced in 1985. He then married Judith Zeitlin two years later. The couple gave a birth to one child, Lida Wu.
