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Jeff Koons …. by Ingrid Sischy Eckhard Schneider.
‘An in-depth study of Koons’s entire oeuvre to date. Limited to 1,500 numbered copies, each signed by Jeff Koons. From kinky to kitsch to conceptual, Jeff Koons’s art is anything but conformist. Since he stirred up the art world establishment in the 1980’s with his unapologetic basketball sculptures and stainless steel toy blow-ups, Koons has been known as somewhat of a bad boy—a reputation he confirmed in the early 90s via works depicting him having sex with then-wife Cicciolina, the Italian porn star-cum-politician. Koons’s exploitation of the banal, in the aggrandizement and/or embodiment of kitsch and pop imagery, has become his trademark; detractors may delight in their naysaying, but Koons’s work commands millions at auction and his position at the forefront of contemporary art is indisputable.’ Arty.
$1,399 www.taschen.com Publisher Taschen; Sgd Blg edition (April 2, 2008).
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