"Why Jeff Koons’s “Rabbit” Could Sell for up to $70 Million "
"But perhaps the most important work in the show was a three-foot-high stainless steel bunny—a work that’s key to understanding not just Koons, but the transformative power of the art object in our modern world."
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-jeff-koonss-rabbit-sell-70-million
#9 - Haven't collectors always wanted to have a piece by a particular artist because it's by that artist rather than because of the work itself? I don't see anything in this in principle that a Victorian industrialist or a renaissance prince wouldn't recognise.
If Bromio was still around he'd come rushing in to sing Coons' praise.
more likely to physically attack me for saying that.
Interesting misspelling.
Does it maybe mean 'Well maybe slightly.'?
Yes. But part of what I'm trying to say is that it doesn't do to tar all with the same brush.
I don't consider 'the works' to be universally marvelous, average, or worthless. But the discussion around them is toe-curling.
Macp, isn't his name Koons?
But part of what I'm trying to say is that it doesn't do to tar all with the same brush.
I agree. And I can see ambivalance as between all of his work, and the work which was the starter of this thread, and to which i was referring. So wasn't tarring all.
No, indeed you weren't - Didn't mean to imply such a thing.
And hello to MacP. Yes, would be interesting to get both barrels hear from The Major on this.
uran OMG I can't explain that. I know full well his name is Koons and yet I misspelled it, not once but twice. That is more than embarrassing.
As the I Ching says, 'No blame.'
All appreciation of art is subjective -- some people might think Jeff Koon's weird creatures are pants, other people might consider that Henry Moore's weird reclining figures are underpants.
I do too. I quite like a lot of stuff.
You love it.
Bubbles is quite spectacular. Whoever made it did a decent job.
I saw an exhibition of Jeff koons porn photographs at the tate which was fine but rubbish. However, despite the person warning people at the entrance, several middle class families were taking their quite young children in. Which felt wrong.
Agree. They should get rid of those interfering busybodies.