Jeff Koons - Hardcover

Jeff Koons (né en 1955) a créé un univers visuel unique, aussi accessible qu'ésotérique, innocent qu'érotique, à la fois historique et contemporain. Au fil de sa carrière, il est devenu un poids lourd de la culture visuelle contemporaine, salué autant par les collectionneurs et les institutions que par le public. Issue de la monographie publiée en Edition collector et désormais épuisée, cette édition courante offre la même vue d'ensemble sur l'oeuvre unique de Koons, en un plus petit format et un prix plus doux. Des ballons de basket dans des aquariums ! Des ballons de baudruche en acier inoxydable ! Des sculptures topiaires de chiens ! Michael Jackson et Bubbles sinistrement changés en statue. Tout est là, dans ce livre, confirmant que cet influenceur majeur de notre époque, rival d'Andy Warhol, a su donner de la profondeur au banal, de l'importance au trivial. L'ouvrage comprend un essai biographique, une analyse de Koons d'un point de vue européen et une étude détaillée de son oeuvre. Un somptueux objet d'art et le un panorama ultime l'oeuvre de Koons.

Hans Werner Holzwarth started as a photographer and communication designer, then co-led his own company for corporate design. Since 1992, Holzwarth has focused on book design, collaborating with Larry Clark, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Issey Miyake, Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith, Juergen Teller, Jeff Wall, John Waters, Christopher Wool, and many others. His titles for TASCHEN include Taschen Collection, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, and Christopher Wool. Eckhard Schneider, born 1943 in Coppatz near Berlin. After studying art and working for a short time as an art teacher, he became head of the Nordhorn Municipal Gallery from 1976 - 1989. From 1990 - 2000 he was the business manager and artistic director of the Kunstverein Hannover. In addition, he was active as advisor, designer and curator, amongst others for Expo 2000. Since October 2000 he is Director of the Kunsthaus Bregenz. Katy Siegel is an associate professor of art history and criticism at Hunter College-CUNY, and a contributing editor to Artforum. The co-author with Paul Mattick of Art Works: Money (Thames & Hudson, 2004), she has written extensively about modern and contemporary art including, most recently, catalogue essays on Richard Tuttle, Takashi Murakami, and Dana Schutz. Ingrid Sischy is the Editor in Chief of Interview magazine, a position she has held since December 1989. Since 1997 Sischy has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has written profiles of artists such as Francesco Clemente, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Jeff Koons, James Rosenquist, actress Nicole Kidman, and performer Madonna. Prior to joining Interview, Sischy was the Editor in Chief of Artforum from 1979 to 1988, at which point she joined The New Yorker magazine as a staff writer and as the magazine's photography critic; later she also became the magazine's fashion critic.