Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis

Rothkopf, Scott

ISBN 10: 0847833593 / ISBN 13: 9780847833597

Published by Gagosian / Rizzoli, 2010

About this Item

There is a 16cm tear along the fore-edge of spine and a 6cm tear along the rear fore-edge of spine )the book appears to have been dropped). Hence the front board is a little slack. However the binding is secure. Sunning to spine. Internally very clean.A reading copy. 140pp HEAVY BOOK. NO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING. Size: 310mm x 310mm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis
• Publisher: Gagosian / Rizzoli
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847833593
• ISBN 13: 9780847833597
• Binding: Pictorial Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Art (Post 1900)

About this title

Synopsis

The definitive survey of Jeff Koons’s Hulk Elvis paintings, including an extensive interview with the artist in his studio.

From the outset of his controversial career, Jeff Koons turned the traditional notion of the work of art and its context inside out. Focusing on unexpected yet banal objects as models for his work, he eschewed typical standards of "good taste" in art, instead embracing what he perceives as conventional middle-class values in order to expose the vulnerabilities of aesthetic hierarchies and value systems. Koons’s declared strategies are to make art beautiful, to strive for objectivity, to give back the familiar, and to reflect, and thus empower, the viewer. The works of Koons’s series Hulk Elvis burst with energy and precision yet mystify with their complex permutations and combinations of figurative and abstract elements. A charged mix of inflatable monkeys, geishas, birds, the Incredible Hulk, and the Liberty Bell jostle against realistically rendered landscapes, gestural paintings, steam engines and horse-drawn carriages, negative silhouettes, and underlying dot screens.

About the Author

Jeff Koons’s work has been widely exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Hans Ulrich Obrist has curated and co-curated over 200 solo and group exhibitions internationally since 1991.