Jeff Koons: At the Ashmolean

Norman Rosenthal,Alexander Sturgis

ISBN 10: 191080729X / ISBN 13: 9781910807293

Edité par Ashmolean Museum April 2019, 2019

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-Jeff Koons is one the most famous, important, subversive and expensive artists in the world. Here he curates a range of works from his entire career, many having never been shown in the UK -Accompanies at exhibition at The Ashmolean, Oxford, from February to June, 2019 - Includes an interview with Jeff Koons -New essay by Sir Norman Rosenthal 'I couldn't think of a better place to have a dialogue about art today and what it can be' - Jeff Koons This is an intimate look at the career of contemporary art's most famous and, reportedly, expensive, artists. Jeff Koons himself curated the art which remains almost as controversial as it was when the works first hit the art scene by storm in the 1980's. Like the rest of the art world, Koons shocked and inspired the Brits and this publication documents his new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, one of the world's most distinguished and oldest institutions which has also led the way in interpreting and presenting the important New in art. There are 43 color works along with two in black-and-white - among them his most famous - Equilibrium, Statuary, Banality, Antiquity and the recent Gazing Ball sculptures and paintings. Koons, together with guest curator, Norman Rosenthal, present a tableaux to provoke a unique conversation about the creations and the history of art and ideas with which the work engages. The publication also includes Alexander Sturgis's interview with Koons. 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 the limits of what is possible.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Jeff Koons: At the Ashmolean
• Éditeur: Ashmolean Museum April 2019
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 191080729X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781910807293
• Reliure: Trade Paperback
• État de l'article: New
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Art - Artists, A-Z

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Synopsis

• Jeff Koons is one the most famous, important, subversive and expensive artists in the world. Here he curates a range of works from his entire career, many having never been shown in the UK
• Accompanies at exhibition at The Ashmolean, Oxford, from February to June, 2019
• Includes an interview with Jeff Koons
• Features fourteen works never before shown in the UK
• New essay by Sir Norman Rosenthal

"I couldn't think of a better place to have a dialogue about art today and what it can be" - Jeff Koons

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 the limits of what is possible.

This publication accompanies an exhibiton, running from February to June, 2019 at the Ashmolean. Koons will be in conversation with Martin Kemp at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, in May 2019.

Contents: Director's Foreword; interview with Jeff Koons (by Xa Sturgis); Jeff Koons and the Sheen and Shine of Time (Sir Norman Rosenthal); catalogue entries; Jeff Koon biography.

À propos de l?auteur

Sir Norman Rosenthal was the Exhibitions Secretary at the Royal Academy, London. He is also widely known as a supporter of contemporay artists, including Jeff Koons, Joseph Beuys and George Baselitz as well as the group of British artists that emerged in the 1990s known as the YBAs (Young British Artists). Alexander (Xa) Sturgis is the Director of the Ashmolean Museum.