Claudia Brown
Brown joined the art history faculty at the School of Art in 1998. Recently, she served a four-year term as director of the ASU Center for Asian Studies.
Her research and teaching interests lie in later Chinese painting and decorative arts, museums and exhibitions. She has lectured in China, India, Korea and Taiwan. Her book, "Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644–1911," was published by the University of Washington Press in 2014. She is currently working on a book on the arts of the Qing dynasty.
Education
Ph.D. History of Chinese Art, University of Kansas
Expertise Areas
Area of study
Publications
Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644-1911, book published by the University of Washington Press, 2014.
“A Western View of Kangxi’s Travel to the South: Fragmentary Scroll Six of his Inspection Tour Series and its Associations,” in Embrace the Horizon: The Kangxi Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll VI, published by Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2020, pp. 18-38.
“Acquisitions of Chinese Painting by North American Museums Since the 1980s: Some Impressions,” in World 3: Research on Chinese Art History, A Western Perspective, edited by Wu Hung and Guo Weiqi, published by OCAT, 2020, pp. 112-131.
“Cloudscapes,” essay for an exhibition catalog on the work of artist Dong Xue, Beijing, spring 2017.
“The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection: An Introduction,” in The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Paintings, Sotheby’s, New York, sale of September 14, 2016, pp. 8-17.
“Hu Chunwei: Circulation,” in Urban Collection: Hu Chunwei Works, Beijing, spring 2016, pp. 18-21.
“Gossamer Line and Spreading Ink: The Beauty of Complementary Opposites in the Work of Painter Gao Yi,” essay for an exhibition catalog, Beijing, spring 2016.
Clarity and Luster: New Light on Bronze Mirrors in Tang and Post-Tang Dynasty China and Myriad Points of View: New Research on Ming and Qing Paintings in the Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection, which appeared in 2005-06. Her articles appeared in Between the Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Painting from the Opium Wars to the Cultural Revolution, 2000; Beyond Yixing: The Ceramic Art of Ah Leon, 1998; and Worlds Within Worlds: Chinese Scholars’ Rocks from the Richard Rosenblum Collection, 1997. She was co-author of Transcending Turmoil: Painting at the Close of China's Empire, 1796-1911, 1993; and The Elegant Brush: Chinese Painting under the Qianlong Emperor, 1735-1795, 1985.
Professor Brown contributed to an exhibition catalog published by Harvard University Art Museums in conjunction with Yale University Press, A Tradition Re-defined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950–2000 (2007), and to an exhibition catalog published by Bard Graduate Center with Yale University Press, Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties (2011).
Her book, Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644–1911, is in production at the University of Washington Press.