The man who enshrined a hoover vacuum and a basketball, who created a life-sized polychromed wood replica of Michael Jackson and his pet chimp Bubbles, who transfered his sex life with Italian porn star wife Ilona Staller into art, and who made a monumental topiary sculpture in the shape of a puppy, is back! After a seven-year hiatus from the public eye, bad boy Jeff Koons returns in this comprehensive and overdue survey of his work of the past five years. Three elaborate, highly-produced series are presented, including the joyously effusive "Celebration," an ambitious body of 16 photo-realist paintings and 20 stainless steel sculptures that draw upon the symbols and objects associated with the observance of life's festive rituals.
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Jeff Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1955. The former Wall Street commodities broker rose to prominence in the mid-80s, and has been the subject of numerous solo museum exhibitions, such as those seen at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Bilbao Guggenheim, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Koons currently lives in New York.
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7 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
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How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life (Wittgenstein),
By Terribleman "(Frank)" (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Jeff Koons (Hardcover)
There is a single idea that permeates Koons work. This idea is neither good, nor original, nor indeed - since it has been 70 years since Duchamps "Fountain" - particularly exciting. If there were a "Ladybird book of Modern Art", Jeff's saccharine, 'easyfun' work would be that book. Koons art-as-commodity schitck would be more convincing if the buying public had to decide. His commodities fail as commodities - their status as art, is, of course guaranteed, since (see Duchamp) he has told us it is so. Show me one more Scots Terrier made of flowers and I shall reach for my Uzi in a frenzy of post-modern criticism
5 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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try to make something good for once.,
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This review is from: Jeff Koons (Hardcover)
most of koons work is just duchamps idea repeated in several different forms.
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