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ARTFORUM UNCOVERS THE 1980--THE DECADE THE ART WORLD LOVES TO
HATE
Artforum celebrates its fortieth anniversary with its biggest
issue
ever--the first of two dedicated to the legacy of the "demon decade."
One
hundred contributors in more than 280 pages provide a first draft of the
art history of the ’80s--from Kiefer to Koons, from the Three Cs
to 3
Teens Kill 4.
In March: "’80s Then/’80s Again"--16 interviews with the
artists who make
’80s history: From Jeff Wall and David Salle to Cindy Sherman and
Francesco Clemente, key artists from throughout the decade recall the
period in their own words. And 15 younger artists, including Gregory
Crewdson, Gabriel Orozco, John Currin, and Fischerspooner, talk to
Artforum about the impact of the ’80s on their own work.
"Our money was
spent on our time experiment. Not to play in the fabulous ’80s art
world.
We could give a shit about the ’80s. We were interested in 1925.
We were
interested in 1850."--"’80s Then: McDermott and McGough Talk to
Bob
Nickas"
"Writing the ’80s" looks back on the decade as it unfolded in the
articles
and essays of those chronicling it. Scott Rothkopf investigates the
mainstream press, from Artforum to Arts, to present four
snapshots of the
period’s writing. James Meyer remembers the influential work of
critic
Craig Owens, whose collection of slides fell to Meyer after
Owens’s death.
And Matthew Higgs discusses the alternative magazines of the
decad--ZG,
Real Life, Effects, and Wedge--which he discovered as a teenager in
a
London bookshop. "Rene was on a first-name basis with
‘Jean-Michel,’
‘Julian,’ and ‘Brice,’ and he called paintings
‘pictures’ in the
old-fashioned, aristocratic manner, not the newly theoretical
one."--Scott
Rothkopf on Rene Ricard
Also in March: David Rimanelli and 12 others focus on all the big events
from the first half of the decade. From ABC No Rio’s "Real Estate
Show"
(Jan. 1980) through Ross Bleckner at Nature Morte (Dec. 1985),
Rimanelli’s
"Time Capsules" offers a point-by-point chronology of the
early-’80s art
world. And in "Milestones," contributors from Peter Schjeldahl and
Robert
Rosenblum to Richard Prince and David Robbins look back on the
decade’s
highlights--Blade Runner and Wigstock, the World of Video and
Scritti
Politti’s "Jacques Derrida."
Plus: Alexi Worth unearths the vanished impresario Christian Leigh; Tom
Holert looks at the tribal ’80s; Daniel Birnbaum on the rise of
the
Cologne art scene; Gregg Bordowitz on AIDS, activism, and guerrilla
filmmaking; Andrew Ross on sampling; and "The Mourning After," a
roundtable revisiting the Death of Painting.
Subscribe today and receive both parts of our fortieth-anniversary look
at
the '80s, at our special anniversary rate. Visit us at
http://www.artforum.com/subsc
ribe/
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