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Jeff Koons : [popeye series] / Serpentine Gallery ; [edited by Kathryn Rattee and Melissa Larner].

Title
Jeff Koons : [popeye series] / Serpentine Gallery ; [edited by Kathryn Rattee and Melissa Larner].
Author
Koons, Jeff, 1955-
Publication
London : Koenig Books ; Köln : Distribution, Buchhandlung Walther König ; New York : Distribution outside Europe, D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers, c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Rattee, Kathryn
  • Larner, Melissa
  • Peyton-Jones, Julia
  • Obrist, Hans Ulrich
  • Serpentine Gallery
Description
88 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 26 cm.
Summary
Jeff Koons' Popeye series, begun in 2002, incorporates some of the artist's signature themes and motifs: the surrealistic combination of everyday objects, cartoon imagery, outsized scale, art-historical references and children's toys. The sculptures reproduced here continue Koons' fondness for casting inflatable toys in aluminum-carefully painted to resemble supple plastic-which he juxtaposes here with unaltered everyday objects, such as chairs or garbage cans. The Popeye paintings are complex and layered compositions that combine disparate images both found and created by Koons (including images of the sculptures in the series). The instantly recognizable figures of Popeye and Olive Oyl are central, and recur across several key works within the book. Frederic Tuten, Arthur C. Danto and Dorothea von Hantelmann provide commentary on this fun body of work, which Koons discusses in a conversation with Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Alternative Title
Popeye series
Subject
  • Koons, Jeff, 1955- > Exhibitions
  • Installations (Art) > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Jeff Koons: Popeye Series at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 2 July - 13 September 2009. Exhibition curated by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Kathryn Rattee"--Colophon.
ISBN
  • 9783865606662
  • 3865606660
  • 9783865606044 (Koenig Books)
  • 3865606040 (Koenig Books)
  • 9781905190270 (Serpentine Gallery)
  • 1905190271 (Serpentine Gallery)
LCCN
^^2012452821
OCLC
  • 432994842
  • SCSB-10050872
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library