American Visions Vol. 8 - The Age of Anxiety

Robert Hughes's look at the 80s and 90s. Remember those and the happenings back then? So much has changed or is gone from before already. For one, I'm moved to be a much more conservative sort of person. Progressive still in the Good Old Teddy-style but nevertheless conservative. Somehow the wildness of the time reflected on the art market then too. Enormous sums of money were being exchanged in order to own something that wasn't worth a tenth of the amount. Remember Jeff Koons? However, no-one except a few like Hughes were telling us that at the time. He focused on work that responded to the Vietnam War and civil strife back in 60s and 70s, traced the development of minimalism and ended up on top of an extinct volcano https://youtu.be/TuXZug8M5A0