Celebrity and the Cult of the Artist

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Celebrity and the Cult of the Artist



Following a decade focused on video, performance, earthworks, and installations, painting made a vibrant comeback in the 1980s: particularly the abstract, figurative, landscape and expressionistic styles. Artists such as David Salle, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Eric Fischl came to prominence during the 1980s and their influences still reverberate today.

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