Jeff Koons: Season 5 Preview (October 2009)

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How can I catch up on past seasons of Art21?
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Past seasons of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series can be found on Hulu, on DVD from PBS and Amazon, through iTunes, and from Netflix
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British Bobby
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Police in Great Britain are commonly referred to as ´Bobbies.´ Here's why:


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What does Koons have to say about the idea of fantasy?
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On the subject of fantasy in art, Koons discusses the inspiration for his work Puppy (in the forthcoming Season 5 book):

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What happens in Koons's segment in Fantasy?
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“Art should be something really powerful,” says Jeff Koons, “but at the same time, there’s morality that comes along with that.” Koons argues that “objects are metaphors for people” and views art as a vehicle for communication that “can connect you through history” and empower viewers to accept their own pasts, cultures and desires.

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Where can I see more of his work before the October premiere?
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Jeff Koons maintains an extensive website of his own work. His recent Popeye Series can be seen in London until September 13 at the Serpentine Gallery.

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See more of the exhibition at the MCA Chicago
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The Ovation TV film Jeff Koons: Beyond Heaven has additional commentary and views of the exhibition at the MCA Chicago.

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This video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Fantasy premiering on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings).

Fantasy presents four artists—Cao Fei, Mary Heilmann, Jeff Koons, and Florian Maier-Aichen—whose hallucinatory, irreverent, and sublime works transport us to imaginary worlds and altered states of consciousness.

Jeff Koons was born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania; he lives and works in New York. Koons plucks images and objects from popular culture, framing questions about taste and pleasure. His contextual sleight-of-hand, which transforms banal items into sumptuous icons, takes on a psychological dimension through dramatic shifts in scale, spectacularly engineered surfaces, and subliminal allegories of animals, humans, and anthropomorphized objects. The subject of art history is a constant undercurrent, whether Koons elevates kitsch to the level of Classical art, produces photos in the manner of Baroque paintings, or develops public works that borrow techniques and elements of seventeenth-century French garden design. Organizing his own studio production in a manner that rivals a Renaissance workshop, Koons makes computer-assisted, handcrafted works that communicate through their meticulous attention to detail.

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