This interview was conducted at Yang Xiaoyan's studio in Guangzhou on 19 January 2008. For more information please visit the Materials of the Future website.


Biography:

Yang Xiaoyan (b. 1957, Guangzhou) is an art theorist and critic who works in Guangzhou.

Yang studied in the Department of Oil Painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA) between 1978 and 1982, and continued at GAFA to receive his master’s degree in 1987. Over the years, he has held a number of key editorial positions at the Huacheng Publishing House (1982–1984); the Lingnan Art Publishing House in Guangzhou (1984–1987); and was chief editor of Art Gallery (Hualang) magazine between 1993 and 1998.

Between 1999 and 2004, Yang pursued his doctoral degree on the theory of architecture in the School of Architecture at the South China University of Technology. 

Yang’s studies and critiques have contributed greatly to the fields of art, photography and journalism. His publications include Art History and Its Significance (Yishushi de yiyi, in collaboration with Shao Hong) (2001) and Sixty Years of Chinese Photography (Xinzhongguo sheying liushinian) (2009).


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楊小彥，1957年生於廣州。藝術理論及批評家，現居廣州。

1978—1982年間於廣州美術學院油畫系作本科生，畢業後兩年任花城出版社編輯。1984年攻讀廣州美術學院美術史碩士研究生課程，三年後獲碩士學位。畢業後於嶺南美術出版社任多個編輯職位，至1988年；1993—1998年間亦曾任《畫廊》雜誌主編。
 
1999—2004年間於華南理工大學建築學院建築學系，攻讀建築理論與歷史，並獲工學博士學位。畢業後任中山大學傳播與設計學院新聞傳播學系主任、教授至今。
 
楊小彥的研究及評論涉足美術、攝影和傳播領域。著作有《藝術史的意義》（與邵宏合著，藝術史的意義，2001）、《新中國攝影六十年》（石家莊：河北美術出版社，2009）等。