ArtBabble Episode #112, Art History: Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons describes his affinity for creating a dialogue with other artists by referencing art history — both Classical and Modern — in his work.

From ArtBabble:

Jeff 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.