Hong Kong Art

David Clarke is Honorary Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong. He has been active as an art historian (writing on both Western and Asian art) and as an artist (particularly as a photographer). Amongst his many books are Hong Kong Art: Culture and Decolonization (Reaktion Books, 2001), Hong Kong x 24 x 365: A Year in the Life of a City (2007), Water and Art (Reaktion Books, 2010), Chinese Art and its Encounter with the World (2011) and China – Art – Modernity (2019).

"Clarkes Hong Kong Art itself is a proof of opting to refuse the vicious circle of silence. It is done by way of a lucid narrative, substantial research, and an awareness of art history writing, that intervene in mutating the ongoing situation." - Journal of Aesthetic Education"Clarkes book, with its discussion of a wide range of media, including painting, architecture, sculpture, photography, video, installation, fashion, graphic design, and graffiti, and with its large number of illustrations as well as a rich bibliography is a welcome addition to the literature on contemporary art in China. Its discussion of the impact of the 1997 handover on contemporary art in Hong Kong serves as a model for any discussion of art in relation to cultural politics in East Asia. In fact, this reviewer wishes that when writing his own Art and Cultural Politics in Postwar Taiwan he had been able to read Professor Clarkes book." - China Review International