Jeff Koons

Bonami, Francesco (editor) ; Jeff Koons; Et Al

ISBN 10: 0300141947 / ISBN 13: 9780300141948

Published by Yale University Press, 2008

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Orderbook - wwb -----JEFF KOONS. Ed. By Francesco Bonami. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2008. Published in association with Yale University Press, New Haven. 136 pp. With 113 ills. (107 col. ). 26 x 26 cm. LC 2008-923657 ISBN 9780300141948. In English. Artist(s) : Koons, Jeff Indexing: _Western_ _United States_ _Post-1945_ _Post-1970_ _Work in Several Media_ Plans: 71 01 05 07 13 17 20 22 Worldwide Number 032017 Hardcover $45.00x (libraries receive a 10% discount on this title) - check availability withYale U Press in US and in UK - they have separate inventories, do not share inventories - see "Sargent: Early Portraits"99 / CHANGE0722022; *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 136 pp. With 113 ills. (107 col. ). 26 x 26 cm. -- with a bonus offer--.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jeff Koons
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300141947
• ISBN 13: 9780300141948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In 1975, a young art student named Jeff Koons (b. 1955) moved to Chicago, where he studied at the School of the Art Institute; worked as a studio assistant to his hero, painter Ed Paschke, for $1 an hour; and socialized with many of the city’s most talented artists. This handsome book takes a fresh look at the rise and career of Jeff Koons, who is now arguably one of the world’s most famous artists. 

Koons collaborated extensively on this book, which accompanies the first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. in 16 years and offers a survey of nearly thirty years of his work, beginning with iconic sculptures from 1979 to new paintings completed in 2007. Francesco Bonami reconsiders his career, making intriguing connections to the work of Andy Warhol, A. A. Milne, Marcel Duchamp, and Gustave Courbet, among others. This is the first publication to explore a little-known but highly influential period in the artist’s career––his time in Chicago in the 1970s. It also provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Koons’s work for new audiences and short texts about each of his series and many major works.

Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Exhibition Schedule:

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (May 31 – September 21, 2008)

About the Author

Francesco Bonami is Artistic Director of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery and a former Manilow Senior Curator at the MCA. He served as chief curator of the 50th Venice Biennale. Lynne Warren is Curator at the MCA and editor of Art in Chicago, 1945–1995.