Peng De 2009-09-18
Xi'an Academy of Arts,
Xi'an
“Zhou Shaohua wanted me to take charge of a new publication. I was not sure what to do, but Zhou granted me a lot of freedom. I thought, ‘If I’m going to edit an art magazine, I want it to be for young people.’ Everything in China was changing then, and there were so many new ways of thinking cropping up. I wanted to make a magazine about what was happening in art that could change the way a whole generation thought.”
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.
