This interview was conducted at Liu Xiaochun's home in Beijing on 5 November 2007.


Biography:

Liu Xiaochun (b. 1941, Luoyang, Henan Province) is an art critic and co-founder of the 1980s newspaper Fine Arts in China (Zhongguo meishubao).

Liu graduated from the Department of Art History at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1966. In 1979 he began studying for his postgraduate degree at the Chinese National Academy of Arts and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1981 and 1985, respectively. In 1985, together with other art historians including Zhang Qiang, Liu founded Fine Arts in China (Zhongguo meishubao) and engaged Li Xianting as a fulltime editor.

Liu has published over 200 books, articles and critical writings on art. Some of his significant works include ‘From Animal Pleasure to Human Aesthetics’ (Cong dongwu kuaigan dao ren de meigan) (doctoral dissertation, 1986) and Deconstruction and Reconstruction: About Chinese Contemporary Art (1996).


簡歷︰

劉驍純，1941年生於河南洛陽。藝術批評家，居於北京。

1966年畢業於中央美術學院美術史系。1979年在中國藝術研究院研究生院攻讀美術學，並先後在1981及1985年獲碩士和博士學位。1985年，劉驍純與其他青年美術史學者如張薔等創辦《中國美術報》，並聘栗憲庭任專職編輯。
 
劉氏已發表的論著、論文、評論有200餘篇，代表作包括《從動物快感到人的美感》（博士論文）（濟南：山東文藝出版社，1987）、《解體與重建：論中國當代美術》（南京：江蘇美術出版社，1993）等。