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Pierre & Gilles: Double Je, 1976-2007»rank: 60242by: Paul Ardenne
: :Pierre et Gilles create dreamy portraits that transport their subjects - as well as the viewers - into an alternate world where camp, pop, burlesque, religion, and eroticism mingle in perfect harmony. Creating the sets themselves, and with Pierre as photographer and Gilles as painter/elaborator, they create one-of-a-kind artworks of an unmistakably original style. A host of stars has passed before their lens, such as Iggy Pop, Madonna, Marc Almond, Nina Hagen, Catherine Deneuve, Laetitia Casta, Marilyn Manson, Mireille Mathieu...though many of their portraits also feature unknowns. Marking the 30th anniversary of their collaboration, the Jeu de Paume in Paris is hosting a retrospective of their work from June to ... |
Monument To Now»rank: 621405by: Takashi Murakami, Wolfgang Tillmans, Alison Gingeras, Chris Ofili, Gillian Wearing, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Olafur Eliasson, Robert Gober, Andreas Gursky, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Shirin Neshat, Kiki Smith, Chen Zhen, Ashley Bickerton
: :'Greek collector Dakis Joannou is one of the preeminent collectors of contemporary art in the world, with a collection that stands as a virtual who's who of artists from the 1980s through today. Eighty-five of those artists are represented in Monument to Now--the most utterly relevant to today, of course. Leading curators from New York, Milan, and Paris have contributed essays and selected the included artists. Designed by acclaimed graphic artist Stefan Sagmeister, the hardcover edition features a three-dimensional monument affixed to the front cover; the paperback retains some trace of the monument, perhaps a footprint of the monument on the front cover, a pop-up monument inside, or some other ... |
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Jeff Koons»rank: 275804by: Alison Gingeras, Eckhard Schneider, Jeff Koons, Eckard Schneider
: :The man who enshrined a hoover vacuume and a basketball, who created a life-sized polychromed wood replica of Michael Jackson and his pet chimp Bubbles, who transfered his sex life with Italian porn star wife Ilona Staller onto canvas, and who made a monumental topiary sculpture in the shape of a puppy, is back. After a seven-year hiatus from the public eye, bad boy Jeff Koons returns in this comprehensive and overdue survey of his work of the past five years. Three elaborate, highly-produced series are presented, including the joyously effusive 'Celebration,' an ambitious body of 16 photo-realist paintings and 20 stainless steel sculptures that draw upon the symbols and ... |
Jeff Koons: Easy Fun-Ethereal»rank: 889956by: Jeff Koons
: :For his recent series of work entitled Easy Fun-Ethereal, Jeff Koons employs new computer technology to merge populist icons into desktop collages, which he then transforms into traditional oil paintings rendered with photorealist precision. Drawn from glossy magazines and advertisements, the imagery includes smiley-faced sandwiches, spiraling roller coasters, succulent lips and abstract juice splashes. These hybrids of fun and fantasy simultaneously celebrate childhood pleasures and adult sexual desire: in keeping with Koons's stated intention to 'communicate with the masses,' the cheerful works are accessible to all. Accompanying an exhibition of seven large-scale paintings commissioned for the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, this lively volume features 40 full-color reproductions. Art historian David Sylvester's ... |
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Jeff Koons: Versailles»rank: 461232by: Jeff Koons
: :For his recent series of work entitled Easy Fun-Ethereal, Jeff Koons employs new computer technology to merge populist icons into desktop collages, which he then transforms into traditional oil paintings rendered with photorealist precision. Drawn from glossy magazines and advertisements, the imagery includes smiley-faced sandwiches, spiraling roller coasters, succulent lips and abstract juice splashes. These hybrids of fun and fantasy simultaneously celebrate childhood pleasures and adult sexual desire: in keeping with Koons's stated intention to 'communicate with the masses,' the cheerful works are accessible to all. Accompanying an exhibition of seven large-scale paintings commissioned for the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, this lively volume features 40 full-color reproductions. Art historian David Sylvester's ... |
Illy Collection: A Decade of Artist Cups by illycaffè»rank: 152679by: Andrea Illy, Francesco Illy, Matteo Thun, Achille Bonito Oliva, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Neil Aitken, Hannah Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola, Ernesto Illy, Vittoria Illy, Marina Abramovic, Louise Bourgeois, David Byrne, Sandro Chia, Mario Giacomelli, Jeff Koons, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis
: :Which is more important, the coffee you drink or the cup you drink it from? The choice is a difficult one for any aesthete to make, and it is only highlighted and intensified by famed Italian coffeemaker illycaff , which, since 1933, has been producing one of the world's greatest espressos, and which, since 1992, has been commissioning limited-edition coffee cup designs from internationally renowned and emerging artists, musicians, and filmmakers. If the story of the coffee begins with Francesco Illy in Trieste, the story of the cup begins in 1990 with architect and engineer Matteo Thun, who designed a white espresso cup to the exacting specifications of the Illy ... |
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Lichtenstein: Girls (Gagosian Gallery)»rank: 872054by: Roy Lichtenstein
: :This publication surveys the seminal group of Girl paintings by Roy Lichtenstein. In the Summer of 1961, Lichtenstein embarked on a series of iconic images of women, taken directly from newspaper clippings and the romance comic books prevalent in post-war America. The anonymity of mass-produced, cheap comics helped him capture specific impressions of real life, while maintaining the necessary degree of aesthetic distance afforded by what he understood to be the 'high restrictive quality of art'. The 'Girl' paintings, together with the war images (or 'Boy' paintings), established him as a major protagonist of the American Pop Art movement. His amalgamation of text and image, high and low culture, and ... |
Cyclops (Albert Watson)»rank: 893481by: Albert Watson, Jeff Koons, Laurie Kratochvil
: :This first-ever collection of photographs from one of today's most talented and versatile image makers represents a quarter of a century's worth of photographic exploration. 'Watson stands in a small elite group of photographers who are constantly and internationally sought after.'--American Photographer. 235 duotone photos; 5 gatefolds. |
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Universal Experience: Art, Life, And The Tourist'S Eye»rank: 425045by: Carol Becker, Alain de Boton, Robert Fitzpatrick, Martin Parr, Lucy Lippard, Susan Sontag, Peter Fischli, Emilia Kabakov, David Weiss, Matthew Buckingham, Katherina Fritsch, Aleksandra Mir, Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Chris Burden, Ilya Kabakov, Jeff Koons, Gabriel Orozco, Simon Starling, Rirkrit Tiravanija
: :Drawing from such disciplines as anthropology, sociology, economics, art criticism, and travel writing, Universal Experience is both a sizeable illustrated catalogue of the exhibition at the MCA, Chicago and a companion to the experience of contemporary travel and tourism. This volume draws on the proliferation of research surrounding the social, geographic, and cultural dimensions of mobility and outputs this information as an anthology of articles, essays, and excerpts. The primary focus of the exhibition, however, is on artworks created by a group of international visual artists who create work in response to travel among multiple cultures--both high and low, and local and foreign. While serving as a 'travel guide' to ... |
Re-Object»rank: 318199by: Sebastian Egenhofer, John Gray, Herbert Molderings, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp
: :Urinals, vacuum cleaners, basketballs, glass sheets livestock? This study of key moments in the history of ready-made and object-based art features Damien Hirst (London), Gerhard Merz (Munich), Jeff Koons (New York) and their shared historical point of reference, Marcel Duchamp (Paris and New York, 1887-1968). Recently a poll of 500 British critics called Duchamp's 1917 Fountain the most influential Modern artwork ever created. Even more recently, a man assaulted it with a hammer at the Centre Pompidou, confirming that, nearly a century later, emotions are still running high. Object-based art, which grew into a major twentieth-century trend and continues today, took its cue from the ready-made, and Re-Object explores the ... |