Jeff Koons / Jeff Koons. Edited by Angelika Muthesius
KOONS Jeff [Jeffrey] (York 1955), Cologne, Benedikt Taschen GmbH, 1992, 30x22,5 cm., softcover, pp. 176, illustrated cover, catalogue with tens of colored images through the pages, with texts by Jean-Christophe Amman (Triumph out of Failure) and other authors. An interview of Jeff Koons by Anthony Haden-Guest and a biography of the artist. Peculiar handwritten signature of an unknown "PASCAL" (attributed: the artist) with a black ink pen on the frontispiece and the third cover, dated Jan. '93. A photocopy attached, illustrating a photo by Jeff Koons - probably taken from an unidentified book.
KOONS Jeff [Jeffrey] (York 1955), Cologne, Benedikt Taschen GmbH, 1992, 30x22,5 cm., softcover, pp. 176, illustrated cover, catalogue with tens of colored images through the pages, with texts by Jean-Christophe Amman (Triumph out of Failure) and other authors. An interview of Jeff Koons by Anthony Haden-Guest and a biography of the artist. Peculiar handwritten signature of an unknown "PASCAL" (attributed: the artist) with a black ink pen on the frontispiece and the third cover, dated Jan. '93. A photocopy attached, illustrating a photo by Jeff Koons - probably taken from an unidentified book.
KOONS Jeff [Jeffrey] (York 1955), Cologne, Benedikt Taschen GmbH, 1992, 30x22,5 cm., softcover, pp. 176, illustrated cover, catalogue with tens of colored images through the pages, with texts by Jean-Christophe Amman (Triumph out of Failure) and other authors. An interview of Jeff Koons by Anthony Haden-Guest and a biography of the artist. Peculiar handwritten signature of an unknown "PASCAL" (attributed: the artist) with a black ink pen on the frontispiece and the third cover, dated Jan. '93. A photocopy attached, illustrating a photo by Jeff Koons - probably taken from an unidentified book.
"In Walker Percy's »The Thanatos Syn-drome« (1987/' Dr. Comeaux, director of a psychiatric institute in the American South, introduces heavy sodium into the water supply. The result is astounding. People's aggressions disappear; they lose their inculcated inhibitions and become hard-working, sexually available, and no longer rebellious. Order and quiet return. Is Jeff Koons a Dr. Comeaux? What kind of drug is it that he uses, persuading us to enter a world of regressive fictionality? Jeff Koons (born 1955) is American. No other country in Western civilization has evolved such powerful polarities as the USA. The absence of history prompted the import of history, and also led to pragmatism and a belief in what was feasible. Rich and poor, educated or not, healthy or sick: all of these are qualities of individuals whose concept of freedom is a broad one. In no other country are the dichotomies of puritanism, sexuality and pornography so present, nor has pornography acquired such glamour." from the text by Jean-Christophe Amman
