Liu Chiao-mei is professor of modern art and art historiography. She is specialized in modern art and art theories, with an emphasis on Impressionism and synesthesia in painting. She holds a Ph.D. from the Université Paris I - Panthéonde-Sorbonne, and her dissertation on Paul Cezanne’s series of the Château Noir (Paris: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2002), elaborates the question of color and temporality in the artist’s late work. She wrote extensively on the color and space in Mondrian’s works during his Parisian years. Her essays on Brice Marden's pictures inspired by Chinese art and poetry attempt to expand the perspectives of modernism in the age of globalization. Her most recent researches investigate some unpublished subjects in the art of Edouard Manet, covering child portraits, child play, animal subjects, as well as the art of ink. She also investigates the artistic relationships between France and China in the nineteenth century, through the Chinese caricatures of Daumier within the context of Opium Wars as well as the Chinese paintings in Henri Cernuschi collection in the 1870s. She currently works on a parallel project on illuminated books and scientific illustrations in late nineteenth-century France and Britain.
Courses taught: “Nineteenth-Century Art”, “Twentieth-Century Art”, “Paris: Art and the City”, “Art Historiography”, “Romantic Art”, “Visualizing Science: Natural History Illustration”, “Visual Cultures of Flowers, 1600-1900”, “A Cultural History of Childhood, 1700-2000”, “History of Modern France”.