Jeff Koons

by Koons, Jeff; Kellein, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781891024610
• ISBN10: 1891024612
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

The man who enshrined a Hoover vacuum cleaner, who suspended a basketball in a fish tank half filled with water, who created a life-size polychromed wooden replica of Michael Jackson and his pet chimp Bubbles, who transferred his sex life with his then-wife, Italian porn star Ilona Staller (aka Cicciolina), onto canvas, and who made a monumental topiary sculpture in the shape of a puppy, is here given a mini-retrospective in the form of a book. Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002focuses primarily on the formation and development of Koons's paintings, but, given that he considers his early sculptures to be "three-dimensional paintings," this limit need hardly be considered medium-restrictive. Thomas Kellein's extended interview provides a walloping good tale told by the artist himself. In it, Koons remembers his childhood drawing lessons, his first sale (his father had a decorating business and showroom where he would display and sell his 11-year-old son's art), his experiences at art school, his courtship with ex-wife Cicciolina (they fell in love after he hired her to make his Made in Heavenseries), and how the birth of his son inspired his Celebrationseries, all the while sharing his philosophies on art. Organized chronologically and with an extended biography and bibliography, Picturespresents each of the main works from Koons's painting series from 1980 to the present.

Table of Contents

Thomas Kellein: Pictures and Pictorial Strategies	p. 7
From Jeff Koons's Studio	p. 13
The New 1980-83	p. 32
Equilibrium 1985	p. 36
Luxury and Degradation 1986	p. 44
Banality 1988-89	p. 52
Made in Heaven 1990-91	p. 58
Celebration 1995-98	p. 64
Easyfun 1999-2000	p. 70
Easyfun-Ethereal 2000-02	p. 84
Exhibited Works	p. 96
List of Exhibitions	p. 100
Photo Credits	p. 112
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