How Jeff Koons sold out – and why his jumbo tulips don’t belong in Paris
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White, L. 2018. How Jeff Koons sold out – and why his jumbo tulips don’t belong in Paris.
| Title of work | How Jeff Koons sold out – and why his jumbo tulips don’t belong in Paris |
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| Creators | White, L. |
| Description | This short "Comment" article for Apollo Magazine's website looks at the angry response of French intellectuals to the proposal to place Jeff Koons's monumental sculpture Bouquet of Tulips outside the Museum of Modern art and the Palais de Tokyo, in Paris, as a memorial for the terrorist attacks in Paris. It reads the sculpture in the light of Koons's career trajectory from New York's edgy alternative art scene of the 1980s to his place as an establishment figure in the present, and analyses the politics of the proposed placing of the sculpture in this light. |
| Keywords | public sculpture, memorials, Jeff Koons, art and commodification, politics of contemporary art |
| Research Group | Visual Culture and Curating cluster |
| First publicly available date | |
| 14 Mar 2018 | |
| Publication process dates | |
| Deposited | 06 Aug 2018 |
| Accepted | 09 Mar 2018 |
| Output status | Published |
| Web address (URL) | https://www.apollo-magazine.com/how-jeff-koons-sold-out-and-why-his-jumbo-tulips-dont-belong-in-paris/ |
| Language | English |
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