Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doubly peculiar if you consider the kind of art that was in vogue right through the 1980s: Neoexpressionism. Boyd's trouble was premature Neoexpressionism. His early paintings are fiercer and more abandoned in their imagery than almost anything produced in Germany, and anything at all from America, during the '80s -- the cries of a visionary that didn't have the faintest hope of being heard outside his antipodean isolation, but that mattered a great deal to a tiny coterie of like-minded artists in Melbourne...
...whose appearance in art Boyd played a large role in re- creating, and an enthusiasm for allegory and biblical narrative resembling Samuel Palmer's -- suffused his work for the next 30 years. Naturally, this made Boyd seem provincial, against the dominant currents of international abstract art. Then came the '80s, and with them a figurative revival -- conducted, for the most part, by shallow rhetorical artists, media- hypnotized Americans and hot-'n'-heavy Germans. But Boyd, unlike Georg Baselitz and other cultural sausagemakers, didn't have ministries and art magazines pushing his work while a worldwide dealer and museum network pulled...
...much the worse for the menu. It's hard to see this show without reflecting that Boyd may turn out to have been the major artist that, with the single exception of Anselm Kiefer, '80s Neoexpressionism never had. Is everything of his on the same level? By no means: curator Barry Pearce has edited Boyd's long and effusive output sharply, and even so there are some real clinkers among the more recent work. Yet one remains convinced of a deep, solid achievement, not only in painting but also in sculpture -- for some of Boyd's ceramic work is truly...
...concerned about the course of the state Democratic party," Bachrach said. "In the '80s we decided the party needed to be more like the other guys...
Today more than 1,000 Americans are murdered on the job every year, 32% more than the annual average in the '80s. Increasingly, too, they die not at the hands of strangers but because their spouses or jilted lovers pursue their quarry to the work site, or because disgruntled co-workers or customers want to settle a score...