Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Details
Review ... Cliffs Notes to his career. -- Bregory Garry --- Flaunt Read more About the Author 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. Read more
Reviews
This volume is too slender though it's beautifully made and the color reproductions are excellent. The book is divided chronologically by series (e.g. Equilibrium, Banality, Easyfun, etc.). There is a brief introduction by Thomas Kellein followed by Jeff Koons' slightly longer one. The first-person comments by Koons are interesting and are nice to see right next to the work he is discussing but for a book with pretensions at being a career retrospective it is way too thin, does not feature any substantial critical essays, and only reproduces a small number of works from each series.