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Showing posts with label jeff koons. Show all posts
10 Feb 2024

Notes on 'The Crisis of Narration' by Byung-Chul Han (Part 3)

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Byung-Chul Han pictured with the Spanish language edition of Die Krise der Narration (2023) [a] I.    Byung-Chul Han is very good at coming...
10 Dec 2022

Reflections on Heide Hatry's Rusty Dog

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Heide Hatry : Rusty Balloon Dog (2015)  Photo by Stan Schnier     I.    Ask a metallurgist and they'll tell you that rust is an iron ox...
10 Nov 2022

Blue Balls (With Reference to the Work of Jeff Koons and D. H. Lawrence)

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Jeff Koons with one of his blue gazing balls Photo by Lucy Young     Like the American comedian Jena Friedman, I've long admired the art...
26 Jun 2022

Jeff Koons: Apollo (The Golden Boy of American Art Meets the Golden God of the Greeks)

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Jeff Koons: Apollo Kithara (2019-22) [1]   Jeff Koons on Instagram I.    Apollo is the golden boy of ancient Greek mythology: the god of su...
16 Feb 2022

In Defence of Jeff Koons's Easyfun-Ethereal

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Cover of the exhibition catalogue  published by Harry N. Abrams (2001) [1]     I.    Clearly, Jeff Koons features as a very special kind of ...
15 Dec 2021

Look Don't Touch (Notes on Art and Haptic Compulsion)

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  Image credit: Raul Arboleda / AFP / Getty Images     I.    Touching objects is surely a vital activity. But just as green grocers don'...
5 Dec 2021

On Smoothness

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Jeff Koons: Rabbit (1986)  Stainless steel sculpture [1]     I.    D. H. Lawrence famously contrasted the shape and surface of a peach with...
26 Nov 2021

Ouch! Another Brief Note on Pain and The Palliative Society

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Haroshi : Agony Into Beauty from the solo exhibition Pain StolenSpace Gallery, London (Oct 10th - Nov 3rd 2013) stolenspace.com     Accord...
26 May 2019

Art, Sex and Dolphins (with Reference to the Work of Jeff Koons)

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Jeff Koons: Antiquity 2 (2009-2011) Oil on canvas (102 x 138 inches) I. Inhabiting as they do all the world's oceans, it...
17 Nov 2018

Decorating the World with David Bromley

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Anglo-Aussie artist David Bromley, who is best known for his images of youngsters that nostalgically recreate a memory (or fantasy) ...