Dealing with the power of artistic gesture, each work, presented here in stunning colour, features a blue glass gazing ball that sits on a painted aluminum shelf attached to the front of the painting that reflects both the painting and the viewer. Through the simple act of placing a gazing ball in front of the images, painting and sculpture are reunited for maximum sensory perception.
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Published as an accompaniment to the 2015 exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in New York, this new book depicts Jeff Koons' new Gazing Ball Paintings and the resulting dialogue he creates with artists of the past, from Titian to El Greco, Courbet to Manet.
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Product details

ISBN
9780847859825
Published
2017-12-26
Publisher
Vendor
Gagosian/Rizzoli
Weight
1179 gr
Height
325 mm
Width
257 mm
Thickness
15 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
120

Biographical note

A former Curator at MoMA's Department of Painting and Sculpture, Joachim Pissarro is currently the Bershad Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Galleries, Hunter College, CUNY/City University of New York. Donatien Grau is critic, writer and academic. He is a contributing editor of Flash Art International.