Jeff Koons

by Koons, Jeff; Rosenblum, Robert; Sylvester, David

• ISBN13: 9780892072385
• ISBN10: 0892072385
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Summary

For his recent series of work entitled Easy Fun-Ethereal, Jeff Koons employs new computer technology to merge populist icons into desktop collages, which he then transforms into traditional oil paintings rendered with photorealist precision. Drawn from glossy magazines and advertisements, the imagery includes smiley-faced sandwiches, spiraling roller coasters, succulent lips and abstract juice splashes. These hybrids of fun and fantasy simultaneously celebrate childhood pleasures and adult sexual desire: in keeping with Koons's stated intention to "communicate with the masses," the cheerful works are accessible to all. Accompanying an exhibition of seven large-scale paintings commissioned for the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, this lively volume features 40 full-color reproductions. Art historian David Sylvester's interview with Koons puts forth the artist's perspective on his career to date, while Robert Rosenblum's essay provides an in-depth analysis of the technique and imagery employed in EasyFun-Ethereal.

Table of Contents

Foreword	8	(2)
Dr. Rolf-E. Breuer
Preface and Acknowledgments	10	(4)
Thomas Krens
Jeff Koons Interviewed	14	(32)
David Sylvester
Dream Machine	46	(10)
Robert Rosenblum
Plates	56	(18)
Selected Solo Exhibitions	74	(3)
Selected Bibliography	77	(3)
Credits	80