# Greg M. THOMAS

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# Greg M. THOMAS 陶格

##### Lecturer 講師

Email: [gmthomas@hku.hk](mailto:gmthomas@hku.hk)\
Office: Room 10.22, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

**BA *Washington University;* MA, PhD *Harvard University***

Professor Thomas teaches various aspects of European and American art and architecture from the 18th to 20th centuries, as well as the first-year survey of western art. A specialist in 19th-century French art, he has published *Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century France: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau* (Princeton, 2000) and *Impressionist Children: Childhood, Family, and Modern Identity in French Art* (Yale, 2010). Recent research has focused on artistic interactions between Europe and China in the 18th and 19th centuries, part of a long-term study of the Chinese palace of Yuanming Yuan. He has published two major articles on Yuanming Yuan and its looting (in *Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide*, Autumn 2008; and in *Art History*, February 2009), along with other essays on landscape painting and ecology, Impressionism, and French and British engagement with Chinese culture. He is also the assistant editor of the 13-volume *Wuming* (No Name) Painting Catalogue, (Hong Kong University Press, 2010), which surveys the Wuming group of painters active in Beijing in the 1970s.

- [#### Areas of Expertise](#tab-632ed2f2e4e234c9711)
- [#### Current Research Interest](#tab-6a63c049abd6825fd54)

- [#### Areas of Expertise](#tab-632ed2f2e4e234c9711)

**18th and 19th centuries Western art and architecture**

- [#### Current Research Interest](#tab-6a63c049abd6825fd54)

**Artistic interactions between Europe and China in the 18th and 19th centuries**

### Selected Publications

“Yuanmingyuan on Display: Ornamental Aesthetics at the Musée Chinois,” in *Collecting and Displaying China’s ‘Summer Palace’ in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France*, ed. Louise Tythacott, 149-167. New York and London: Routledge, 2018.

“Chinoiserie and Intercultural Dialogue at Brighton Pavilion,” in *Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West*, ed. Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Ning Ding, 232-247. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2015.

*Impressionist Children: Childhood, Family, and Modern Identity in French Art.* New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010.

“Yuanming Yuan/Versailles: Intercultural Interactions between Chinese and European Palace Cultures,” *Art History* 32, no. 1 (February 2009), 115-143.

*Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century France: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau.* Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

### Current Courses

**[ARTH1001](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth1001/)** Introduction to Western art history

**[ARTH2026](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth2026/)**The age of revolution: Art in Europe, 1750-1840

[**ARTH2027**](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth2027/)The formation of modernity: Art in Europe, 1840-1890

**[ARTH2031](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth2031/)** Modern Western architecture

[**ARTH7012**](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/master-of-arts-in-art-history/ma-courses/arth7012/) Fundamentals of Art History I: Issues in Western Art

[**CCHU9091**](https://commoncore.hku.hk/cchu9091/) Art and Modernity

### Past Courses

[**ARTH1006**](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth1006/) Art and Society

**[ARTH3012](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth3012/)** Cross-cultural interactions in the 19th century

##### PROFILE @ HKU Library

[HKU Scholars Hub research page](http://hub.hku.hk/cris/rp/rp01185)

##### Reaching beyond HKU

###### Greg M. Thomas at the Asia Society – [Catholic Realism in the Qing Court: Qianlong’s Jesuit Painters](https://asiasociety.org/hong-kong/events/catholic-realism-qing-court-qianlongs-jesuit-painters)