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Jeff Koons : a retrospective / Scott Rothkopf.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Whitney Museum of American Art : Distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 303 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 32 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300195877 (hb)
  • 9780300195873 (hb)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Foreword / Adam D. Weinberg -- No limits / Scott Rothkopf -- Inflatables -- Pre-new/The new -- Equilibrium -- Luxury and degradation -- Statuary/Kiepenkerl -- Banality -- Made in heaven -- Celebration -- Easyfun -- Easyfun-ethereal -- Popeye -- Hulk Elvis -- Antiquity -- Gazing ball -- York to New York / Jeffrey Deitch -- Love and basketball / Pamela M. Lee -- Happy hour, or How I learned to stop worrying and love the message / Rachel Kushner -- Life as a resource: mythologization, self-marketing, and the creation of value in the work of Jeff Koons / Isabelle Graw -- The gift of art / Achim Hochdörfer -- Designs for living / Antonio Damasio -- Objects that are only boundaries / Alexander Nagel -- One of a kind / Michelle Kuo.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A fresh and engaging look at the controversial work of Jeff Koons, with insightful analyses and illustrations of all of his iconic pieces alongside preparatory works and historical photographs

Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of work by Jeff Koons (b. 1955), one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20th century, this highly anticipated volume features all of his most famous pieces. In an engaging overview essay, Scott Rothkopf carefully examines the evolution of Koons' work and his development over the past thirty-five years, offering a fresh scholarly perspective on the artist's multi-faceted career. In addition, short essays by a wide range of interdisciplinary contributors--from academics to novelists--probe provocative topics such as celebrity and media, markets and money, and technology and fabrication. Also included are preparatory sketches and plans for sculptures and paintings as well as installation photographs that shed light on Koons' artistic process and trace the development of his work throughout his landmark career.

Koons has risen to international fame making art that reimagines and recontextualizes images and objects from popular culture such as vacuum cleaners, basketballs, and balloon animals. Created with painstaking attention to detail by a team of fabricators, these objects raise questions about taste and popular culture, and position Koons as one of the most lauded and criticized artists working today.

Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art


Exhibition Schedule:

Whitney Museum of American Art
(06/27/14-10/19/14)

Centre Pompidou
(11/26/14-04/27/15)

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
(06/05/15-09/27/15)

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 27-Oct. 19, 2014, at Centre Pompidou, Paris, Nov. 26, 2014-Apr. 27, 2015, and at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Summer 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-271) and index.

Foreword / Adam D. Weinberg -- No limits / Scott Rothkopf -- Inflatables -- Pre-new/The new -- Equilibrium -- Luxury and degradation -- Statuary/Kiepenkerl -- Banality -- Made in heaven -- Celebration -- Easyfun -- Easyfun-ethereal -- Popeye -- Hulk Elvis -- Antiquity -- Gazing ball -- York to New York / Jeffrey Deitch -- Love and basketball / Pamela M. Lee -- Happy hour, or How I learned to stop worrying and love the message / Rachel Kushner -- Life as a resource: mythologization, self-marketing, and the creation of value in the work of Jeff Koons / Isabelle Graw -- The gift of art / Achim Hochdörfer -- Designs for living / Antonio Damasio -- Objects that are only boundaries / Alexander Nagel -- One of a kind / Michelle Kuo.

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