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Jeff Koons and the Test of Time
It will be so rich, 200 years from now, to look back at the art that Jeff is creating today. It might all look quite quaint and sweet, and the graphic quality will look retro. And, of course, the vacuum cleaners will look like pieces of a stagecoach. But it will let people know that we did understand the weirdness of our world.
Read more here. I sympathize with Jeff Koons. One of my goals in writing this blog is to help people understand the weirdness of our world. Here is one sculpture by Jeff Koons; try this too.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on August 12, 2006 at 06:21 AM in The Arts | Permalink
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It's interesting to look at the artists (in all genres--novelists, painters, poets, sculptors, compsers, etc.) who were well-regarded in their time and who have been pretty much forgotten in the future. Koons seems like a likely candidate for this status. This I say without jusdgment. Jeff Koons isn't my least favorite contemproary artist, but he is far from my favorite. But I think there is often a great difference between artists who somehow spoke to their moment and artists who can speak to future generations.
Posted by: RWB at Aug 12, 2006 8:48:08 AM
This is supposed to be art? Rubbish is more like it. Should true art be restored to prominence once more, this tripe will, with any luck, be consigned to oblivion.
Posted by: dm at Aug 12, 2006 10:32:48 AM
Jeff Koons is a thieving hack. I say this as someone who enjoys contemporary art. The reason it's hard to believe he's the one creating the work is because he isn't.
Posted by: Amber at Aug 12, 2006 12:10:29 PM
One of my goals in writing this blog is to help people understand the weirdness of our world.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. OH THANK YOU FOE ENLIGHTENING US PROLES!!!
Posted by: Varangy at Aug 12, 2006 4:00:56 PM
Tyler, why do you think the world is "so weird" now? Do you really think it was "less weird" in the, say 19th century? 15th Century? Pharaonic era? I expect you are deluding yourself with a very common human error of overestimating the importance or uniqueness of one's own era.
And as they say, there is no accounting for taste.
Posted by: Martin at Aug 14, 2006 12:02:51 AM
Martin: I think the comment is safest understood as dealing with whatever wierdness there happens to be, not an assertion that there is any more or less weirdness now than at any other time. (Though you could be right - I can't read Mr. Cowen's mind! Maybe he did mean exactly what you infer...)
(But! Given the greater possibilities for disparate things being together that we have now, I think probably the world is weirder than in Pharaonic Egypt, or perhaps more accurately, there's a lot more chance for a lot more people to be in much weirder situations or experience weirder things.
A peasant in the fields of the Nile... not so much exposure to the weird. But today, with mass communication and cheap, fast travel? Much more opportunity, and arguably more actual weirdness to encounter.)
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Posted by: levan at Sep 12, 2006 3:36:51 AM
It broke my heart to hear that Koons was sued over his great String of Puppies.
The sculpture is an American classic. The satire is brilliant.
It had nothing to do with the mediocre photograph.
This case needs to be retried.
Posted by: jeanh at Oct 6, 2007 11:18:36 AM
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