Born
in York, Pennsylvania, Jeff Koons has been an active artist
since 1976 and his work had been shown worldwide. Some of
Koons's earlier jobs included selling memberships at MoMA
and trading commodities on Wall Street.
What
do you see here? Have you ever seen anything like this
before?
Along
with the rabbit you see here, Jeff Koons’s work has included
other familiar everyday objects such as vacuum cleaners,
basketballs, and even a large-scale ceramic sculpture of
Michael Jackson with his chimp Bubbles.
Koons
said the following about the value of his work, "My objects,
maybe not in a traditional sense art, last longer than you
or myself. Maybe they’ll die off as art, but they are equipped
to outsurvive us physically." 1
- What
do you think of when you look at Rabbit?
- Come
up with five words to describe this work.
- If
you saw Rabbit in a store, would you think it is
art? Why or why not?
- Robert
Storr, On the Edge:
Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser
Collection (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1997),
76.
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