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| | Peter Halley talks to Dan Cameron - '80s Then - Interview ArtForum - Find Articles |
 | | Then you had the mid-'80s, in which the robust economic recovery spurred the emergence of neo-Conceptualism--which included artists who were showing for the first time, Koons, myself, et cetera, but also marked the first widespread acceptance of artists like Richard Prince and Sherrie Levine, who were first shown around 1980. |
 | | Artists were very glamorous in the beginning of the '80s, whereas the art itself got very glamorous in the mid-'80s. |
 | | I think the idea of a painter as a thinker, writer, and theorist came as a real shock to viewers, who were used to painters being only semi-articulate about their aims. |
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