Jeff Koons: A Retrospective (Whitney Museum of American Art) (Bioethics) - Hardcover

Scott Rothkopf; Antonio Damasio; Jeffrey Deitch; Isabelle Graw; Achim Hochdorfer; Michelle Kuo; Rachel Kushner; Pamela M. Lee; Alexander Nagel; James Surowiecki

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300195877 ISBN 13: 9780300195873

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Scott Rothkopf is curator and associate director of programmes at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300195877
• ISBN 13: 9780300195873
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288