Article: '80s something.(Salle Days)(the art of painter David Salle)

The New York art world's self-imposed amnesia regarding the '80s finds its purest expression in our contemporary response to the art of David Salle. As the archetypal bad boy of a generation that defined itself through its unmitigated brashness (Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat are as much his contemporaries as Barbara Kruger and Sherrie Levine), Salle has become an inviting target for those who, appalled by the decade's distinctive fusion of greed and egotism, wish the '80s had never happened. Others seem to be in denial that the artistic premises of David Salle's work - his peculiar fusion of iconoclastic vigor and jaded worldliness - have ever been credible. ...

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