The following is from the Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2001:. Can He Be Serious? . Known for his kitschy works, controversial artist Jeff Koons returns to painting with a more mature approach. By... Read full biography
The following is from the Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2001:. Can He Be Serious? . Known for his kitschy works, controversial artist Jeff Koons returns to painting with a more mature approach. By SUZANNE MUCHNIC, Times Art Writer . "I've always looked at my art and what I do in a very moral way,"... Read full biography
The following is from the Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2001:. Can He Be Serious? . Known for his kitschy works, controversial artist Jeff Koons returns to painting with a more mature approach. By SUZANNE MUCHNIC, Times Art Writer . "I've always looked at my art and what I do in a very moral way," says Jeff Koons, smiling sweetly as he surveys big, splashy, collage-like paintings in his exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. That may be news to longtime observers of the New York... Read full biography
The following is from the Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2001:. Can He Be Serious? . Known for his kitschy works, controversial artist Jeff Koons returns to painting with a more mature approach. By SUZANNE MUCHNIC, Times Art Writer . "I've always looked at my art and what I do in a very moral way," says Jeff Koons, smiling sweetly as he surveys big, splashy, collage-like paintings in his exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. That may be news to longtime observers of the New York artist, who is largely known for merging childish desires and adult passions in kitsch statuary. It's certainly the most shocking statement to be heard these days from the art world superstar who set off one outrage after another in the 1980s and early... Read full biography
The following is from the Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2001:. Can He Be Serious? . Known for his kitschy works, controversial artist Jeff Koons returns to painting with a more mature approach. By SUZANNE MUCHNIC, Times Art Writer . "I've always looked at my art and what I do in a very moral way," says Jeff Koons, smiling sweetly as he surveys big, splashy, collage-like paintings in his exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. That may be news to longtime observers of the New York artist, who is largely known for merging childish desires and adult passions in kitsch statuary. It's certainly the most shocking statement to be heard these days from the art world superstar who set off one outrage after another in the 1980s and early '90s, but then got stuck in a morass of personal problems. Koons, 46, emerged as a concep... Read full biography
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About Jeff Koons: Books
Books & Publications (46)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2016
Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors
360 pages (color)
The Art Prophets: The Artists, Dealers, and Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World
2011
Polsky, Richard
262 pages
Cynthia Greig: Subverting the (un)Conventional (Exhibition catalog)
2010
Goody, Dick
71 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Unpackaging Art of the 1980s
2003
Pearlman, Alison
248 pages (color)
York County: To the Setting of the Sun, An Illustrated History
2002
Sheets, Georg R
260 pages (color)
Cheerio to Cheerios
2002
Sylvester, David
387 pages
Writers on Artists
2001
Byatt, A.S. (foreward)
352 pages (color)
It's All True: Imagining New York's East Village Art Scene of the 1980s
1999
Kirwin, Elizabeth Seton
916 pages
Art at the Turn of the Millennium
1999
Larsen, Lars et all
561 pages (color)
Art in the Courtroom
1998
Inde, Vilis R
270 pages
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
Objects of Desire The Modern Still Life (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Rowell, Margit
232 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Investigating Modern Art
1996
Dawtry, Liz (others)
185 pages (color)
The Dakis Joannou Collection
1996
Deitch, Jeffrey
302 pages (color)
True Colors The Real Life of the Art World
1996
Haden-Guest, Anthony
344 pages (color)
Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s
1996
Sandler, Irving
636 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Culture or Trash? A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting (etc)
1993
Gardner, James
227 pages
American Art in the 20th Century Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Joachimides, Christos (others)
490 pages (color)
Contemporary Art 1965-1990
1992
Kurtz, Bruce D
256 pages (color)
Jeff Koons
1992
Lane, John R
132 pages (color)
Modernism in Dispute Art Since the Forties
1992
Wood, Paul (others)
267 pages (color)
Power:Its Myths and Mores in American Art 1961-1991 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Day, Holliday T
159 pages (color)
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Von der Avantgarde bis zur Postmoderne/die Malerei des 20 Jahrhunderts
1991
Murken, Axel/Christa Murken
358 pages (color)
Devil on the Stairs Looking Back on the Eighties (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Storr, Robert/J Tannenbaum
96 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Affinities and Intuitions Gerald S Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art
1990
Benezra, Neal (editor)
312 pages (color)
Word As Image American Art 1960-1990 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel
172 pages (color)
Culture and Commentary An Eighties Perspective
1990
Halbreich, Kathy
195 pages (color)
Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes
196 pages (color)
Pop Art A Continuing History
1990
Livingstone, Marco
271 pages (color)
High and Low Modern Art/Popular Culture (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Varnedoe, Kirk/Adam Gopnik
460 pages (color)
NY Art Now The Saatchi Collection
1988
Cameron, Dan
250 pages (color)
The Binational American Art of the Late 80s (Exhibition catalog)