Interview with Peng De (Full Version)

This interview was conducted at Xi'an Academy of Arts, Xi'an on 18 September 2009.

Biography:

Peng De (b. 1946, Hubei Province) is a renowned art critic. He lives and works in Xi’an and teaches at the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts.

Peng De graduated from the Department of Chinese at Huazhong Normal University in 1970. In 1985, Peng helped found Art Trends (Meishu sichao) magazine where he served as chief editor until 1989, when the publication ceased. Art Trends was one of the most influential magazines of the 1980s focusing on experimental art and ideas.

Peng has published several books including The Visual Revolution (Shijue geming, 1990) and Chinese Style Criticism (Zhongshi piping, 2002). He is currently based in Xi’an where he continues to write and teach.

簡歷︰

彭德，1946年生於湖北。藝術評論家，居於西安，現為西安美術學院教授。
彭德1970年畢業於華中師範大學中文系。1985年創辦《美術思潮》雜誌，並擔任主編，直至1989年停刊。《美術思潮》是八十年代最重要的美術雜誌之一，積極推動美術實驗及思辯。

出版文集包括：《視覺革命》（南京：江蘇美術出版社，1990）、《走出冷宮的雅藝術》（南京：江蘇美術出版社，2001）及《中式批評》（長沙：湖南美術出版社，2002）。現居西安，從事藝術評論及教學工作。

Context

In 2006, Asia Art Archive began a focused archiving project called 'Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990'. This project aimed at developing a comprehensive collection of primary research materials including books, periodicals, newspapers, exhibition brochures, invitations, video recordings, correspondence, and other relevant documents.

As part of this project, AAA digitised more than 80,000 items of material from personal archives to include artists Mao Xuhui, Wu Shanzhuan, Zhang Xiaogang, and Zhang Peili; curators and critics Fei Dawei, Lu Peng, and Zheng Shengtian; as well as the archives of Tokyo Art Gallery. As part of the research process over 75 in-depth interviews with key artists, curators, and critics were conducted. From a portion of these interviews, AAA created a documentary film about experimental art in South China (Guangzhou) in the 1980s entitled From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Contemporary Cantonese Art in the 1980s.

AAA’s 1980s archiving project culminated with the launch of a comprehensive website portal called www.china1980s.org in September 2010.

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Onsite

speaker

PENG De, 彭德

Spoken language

Mandarin

Publication/Creation date

2009

Running time

2:5:59

Content type

event photograph/recording,

interview documentation

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Interview with Peng De (Full Version), 訪問：彭德（完整版）

Interview with Peng De (Full Version), 訪問：彭德（完整版）