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Article: October 1981.(exploration of article written by Thomas Lawson in 1981)(Brief Article)(Column)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Twenty years ago this month, artist and critic Thomas Lawson filed his survey-cum-manifesto "Last Exit: Painting." For the second installment of this new regular column, editor JACK BANKOWSKY revisits a curious episode in the "painting wars" of the '80s.
"PETULANT SELF-ADVERTISEMENT in the name of a reactionary expressionism" in these pages; "swingeing jeremiads" from the editors at October, condemning any art not wholly indebted to the Minimalists and Conceptualists they "lionize as the true guardians of the faith." If you were anywhere near SoHo in 1981 (the year, it so happens, I made my first forays into Manhattan as an art student), these few broad strokes ...
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...When Artforum called to propose looking back at "Infotainment," a 1985 touring exhibition of young, media-smart East Village artists, I had just returned from London, where I saw Tate Britain's "Art and the 60s: This Was Tomorrow." As I thought back to New York in the mid-'80s, it struck me that
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