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Lü Peng
Born in 1956 in Chongqing, Sichuan province, Professor Lü studied in the political education department of Sichuan Normal University, 1977-82 ; was chief editor of the journal Theatre and Film, 1982-85 ; served as deputy-secretary of the Sichuan Dramatists Society, 1986-91 ; was executive editor of the magazine Art and Market, 1990-93 ; artistic director of the Guangzhou Biennale (officially titled the First Guangzhou Biennial Art Fair), 1992 ; and, graduated and was awarded a PhD in critical theory from the China Art Academy, 2004. Lü Peng is associate professor in the department of art history and theory at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, and is the director of the Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art.
In 2009, he (together with Achille Oliva) curated the invitational exhibition « A Gift to Marco Polo » (Venice Biennale), and in 2010 curated « Reshaping History : China's New Art 2000-2009 » (Beijing). He was also curator of the « Pure Views » series of exhibitions (Louise Blouin Foundation, London, 2010 ; Asia Art Museum, San Francisco, 2011 ; Chengdu Biennale, 2011 ; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, 2013 ; Santa Monica Art Museum in Barcelona, 2013). At the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, Lü Peng (together with Achille Oliva) curated the invitational exhibition « Passage to History : 20 Years of La Biennale di Venezia and Chinese Contemporary Art. » He has also curated a number of solo exhibitions for contemporary Chinese artists.
Lü Peng's extensive publications include : Modern European Aesthetics of Painting (Lingnan Fine Arts Press, 1989) ; Modern Painting : New Imagery Language (Shandong Literature and Art Press, 1987) ; Art-Revelation of Man (Lingnan Fine Arts Press, 1990) ; (with Yi Dan) Twentieth-Century Art Culture (Hunan Fine Arts Press, 1990) ; Critique of Modern Art and Culture (Sichuan Fine Arts Press, 1992) ; (with Yi Dan) History of China Modern Art : 1979-1989 (Hunan Fine Arts Press, 1992) ; Art Operation (Chengdu Publishing House, 1994) ; History of China Modern Art : 1990-1999 (Hunan Fine Arts Press, 2000) ; Pure Views-Remote from Streams and Mountain : Chinese Landscape Painting in the 10th-13th Centuries (Chinese People's University Press, 2004) ; A History of Art in Twentieth-Century China (Peking University Press, 2006, revised edition, 2009 ; English edition : Charta, 2010) ; Artists in Art History (Hunan Fine Arts Press, 2008) ; The Story of « Art » in China (Peking University Press, 2010 ; English edition, Charta, 2011) ; (with Yi Dan) A History of Chinese Art since 1979 (China Youth Publishing House, 2011) ; A Chronicle History of Art in China Year by Year : 1900-2010 (China Youth Publishing House, 2012) ; (with Kong Lingwei) Documents of Contemporary Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century : A Sourcebook (China Youth Publishing House, 2013).
Lü Peng's principal published translations are : Herschel B. Chipp, Selected Letters of Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin (Sichuan Fine Arts Press, 1986 ; 2nd edition : Guangxi Normal University Press, 2003 ; 3rd edition : Chinese People's University Publishing House, 2004) ; W. Kandinsky, The Spirit in Art (Sichuan Fine Arts Press, 1986) ; and Kenneth Clark, Landscape into Art (Sichuan Fine Arts Press, 1988).
Bruce Gordon Doar is an independent translator and writer who lives in Beijing and Sydney. He has worked as a professional translator for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Palace Museum, and founded the journal China Archaeology and Art Digest.
Lü Peng, China's foremost modern art historian, incisively analyzes developments in Chinese art from the late Qing Dynasty through to the opening years of the 21st century in this new revised edition of A History of Art in 20th Century China, published for the first time simultaneously in French and English editions. The art that emerged over the course of a troubled century and more of Chinese history reveals a complex evolution with intrinsic connections to contemporary life. Lü Peng ably charts that evolution, not only in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, but also in important centers such as Paris and Tokyo. This comprehensive narrative will remain for many years the reference to which those seeking knowledge of this history will inevitably turn.
