| Artist: | Jeff Koons |
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| Title: | Dr. Dunkenstein | |
| Date: | 1985 | |
| Nationality: | American | |
| Context: | Postmodernism | |
| Movement: | Neo-Pop Art | |
| Materials: | photo | |
| Subject: part of the Equilibrium show--poster of a basketball star in a rather ridiculous promotion ad; the packaging and hype of aperson sold as a product Style: large-scale poster as part of a larger installationincluding aquarium tanks with basketballs suspended inside and floating devices cast in bronze (see Aqualung). Context: late capitalistic, consumer-oriented society in which people are hyped and packaged; the difficulty of maintaining one's moral equilibrium; cult of celebrity and the problem of limited possibilities for upward mobility for minorities. | ||
