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American artist Jeff Koons repurposes kitsch and pop culture imagery into avant-garde paintings and sculptures. After establishing himself as an artist in the 1980s, Koons founded an art factory which employed 30 artists to work on various aspects of his pieces. The factory was reminiscent of the workshops of Andy Warhol and many Renaissance artists. He also employed an image consult to develop his public persona. His work has attracted some controversy, particularly "Made in Heaven," a series of paintings, sculptures and photographs depicting Koons in a variety of sexually explicit positions with his then wife, Ilona Staller. In November, 2007, his piece "Hanging Heart" set an auction record for a living artist, selling for $23.6 million.
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- Born January 21, 1955
- Classified as a Neo-Pop or Post-Pop artist
- 1999: Commissioned a song about himself on a Momus album
- His piece "Hanging Heart" holds the auction sale record for a living artist
- Drawing based on his "Tullip Balloons" was featured on Google on April 30, 2008
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Jeff Koons on Amazon
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Jeff Koons - $45.00
In 1975, a young art student named Jeff Koons (b. 1955) moved to Chicago, where he studied at the School of the Art Institute; worked as a studio assistant to his hero, painter Ed Paschke, for $...
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Jeff Koons: Versailles - $85.00
This volume presents a marriage made in camp heaven--the splendid extravagance of the palace of Versailles as a backdrop for the gregarious, loud and equally extravagant sculptures of contemporary American Pop artist Jeff Koons, who mounted...
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Jeff Koons - $70.00
An in-depth study of Koons's entire oeuvre to date. Unlimited popular edition.From kinky to kitsch to conceptual, Jeff Koons s art is anything but conformist. Since he stirred up the art world establishment in the 1980s with his...
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Charlie Rose with Anna Wintour; Edmund Morris; Dorothy Lichtenstein, Bonnie Clearwater & Jeff Koons (January 7, 2002) - $24.95
A dialogue with Anna Wintour, fashion icon and editor of Vogue, on the retirement of designer Yves Saint-Laurent. Also, Edmund Morris talks about his biography of former president Teddy Roosevelt, Theodore Rex. Then, a conversation about ...
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Jeff Koons: Celebration - $45.00
Jeff Koons' spectacular October 2008 exhibition at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie presented the infamous series of sculptures and paintings known collectively as Celebration, a project whose fabrication has involved so much labor (bot...
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Jeff Koons on Amazon
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Charlie Rose with Anna Wintour; Edmund Morris; Dorothy Lichtenstein, Bonnie Clearwater & Jeff Koons (January 7, 2002) - $24.95
A dialogue with Anna Wintour, fashion icon and editor of Vogue, on the retirement of designer Yves Saint-Laurent. Also, Edmund Morris talks about his biography of former president Teddy Roosevelt, Theodore Rex. Then, a conversation about ...
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Jeff Koons: Celebration - $45.00
Jeff Koons' spectacular October 2008 exhibition at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie presented the infamous series of sculptures and paintings known collectively as Celebration, a project whose fabrication has involved so much labor (bot...
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Jeff Koons - $45.00
In 1975, a young art student named Jeff Koons (b. 1955) moved to Chicago, where he studied at the School of the Art Institute; worked as a studio assistant to his hero, painter Ed Paschke, for $...
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Jeff Koons: Versailles - $85.00
This volume presents a marriage made in camp heaven--the splendid extravagance of the palace of Versailles as a backdrop for the gregarious, loud and equally extravagant sculptures of contemporary American Pop artist Jeff Koons, who mounted...
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Jeff Koons - $70.00
An in-depth study of Koons's entire oeuvre to date. Unlimited popular edition.From kinky to kitsch to conceptual, Jeff Koons s art is anything but conformist. Since he stirred up the art world establishment in the 1980s with his...
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Jeff Koons on Amazon
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Charlie Rose with Anna Wintour; Edmund Morris; Dorothy Lichtenstein, Bonnie Clearwater & Jeff Koons (January 7, 2002) - $24.95
A dialogue with Anna Wintour, fashion icon and editor of Vogue, on the retirement of designer Yves Saint-Laurent. Also, Edmund Morris talks about his biography of former president Teddy Roosevelt, Theodore Rex. Then, a conversation about ...
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Jeff Koons: Celebration - $45.00
Jeff Koons' spectacular October 2008 exhibition at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie presented the infamous series of sculptures and paintings known collectively as Celebration, a project whose fabrication has involved so much labor (bot...
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Jeff Koons - $45.00
In 1975, a young art student named Jeff Koons (b. 1955) moved to Chicago, where he studied at the School of the Art Institute; worked as a studio assistant to his hero, painter Ed Paschke, for $...
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Jeff Koons: Versailles - $85.00
This volume presents a marriage made in camp heaven--the splendid extravagance of the palace of Versailles as a backdrop for the gregarious, loud and equally extravagant sculptures of contemporary American Pop artist Jeff Koons, who mounted...
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Jeff Koons - $70.00
An in-depth study of Koons's entire oeuvre to date. Unlimited popular edition.From kinky to kitsch to conceptual, Jeff Koons s art is anything but conformist. Since he stirred up the art world establishment in the 1980s with his...
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