Jeff Koons - Norman Rosenthal
at the Ashmolean
KORTE INHOUD
Curated by Koons himself, together with guest curator Norman Rosenthal, this show features seventeen important works, fourteen of which have never been exhibited in the UK before. They span the artist's entire career and his most well-known series, including Equilibrium, Statuary, Banality, Antiquity and his recent Gazing Ball sculptures and paintings. This exhibition will provoke a conversation between his creations and the history of art and ideas with which his work engages. Jeff Koons burst onto the contemporary art scene in the 1980s. He has been described as the most famous, important, subversive, controversial and expensive artist in the world. From his earliest works Koons has explored the 'ready-made' and 'appropriated image', using unadulterated found objects and creating painstaking replicas of ancient sculptures and Old Master paintings which almost defy belief in their craftsmanship and precision. Throughout his career Koons has pushed at the boundaries of contemporary art practice, stretching th...
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2019Uitgever: ACC Publishing Group72 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 267x194ISBN-10: 191080729XISBN-13: 9781910807293Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2019, 72pp, paperback, goed exemplaar / good copy [Auteur: Rosenthal, Sir Norman, Sturgis, Dr Alexander] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Ashmolean Museum] [Jaar: 2019] [Titel: Jeff Koons / At the Ashmolean]
