Interruptions: with photographs by David Clarke and essays by Xu Xi [Paperback]

Interruptions is rooted in the tradition of contemporary ekphrastic writing, where an author creates a literary response in order to confront or narrate a work of visual art. Here, the photographer and writer engage in a dialogue between David Clarkes selections from his photographic archives and Xu Xis essays written in response to each photo, which, in turn, triggers the next photographic choice.

Interruptions is rooted in the tradition of contemporary ekphrastic writing, where an author creates a literary response in order to confront or narrate a work of visual art. Here, the photographer and writer engage in a dialogue between David Clarkes selections from his photographic archives and Xu Xis essays written in response to each photo, which, in turn, triggers the next photographic choice.

David Clarke is Professor in the Department of Fine Arts, University of Hong Kong, where he has taught since 1986. He has written extensively on both Chinese and Western art and culture, with a primary focus on the twentieth century, and is also active as a photographer and visual artist. He has published two photo books about Hong Kong Reclaimed Land Hong Kong in Transition (Hong Kong University Press, 2002) and Hong Kong x 24 x 365 A Year in the Life of a City (Hong Kong University Press, 2007). Amongst his recent publications are Water and Art A Cross-cultural Study of Water as Subject and Medium in Modern and Contemporary Artistic Practice (Reaktion Books, 2010) and Chinese Art and its Encounter with the World (Hong Kong University Press, 2011). His artwork has been widely exhibited in Hong Kong since the beginning of the 1990s, and has also been shown in China, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada and Brazil. Xu Xi (www.xuxiwriter.com) is the author of ten books, most recently the novels That Man In Our Lives (C&R Press, September 2016) and Habit of a Foreign Sky (Haven Books, 2010)a finalist for the Man Asian Literary Prizeandlã¥