| Artist: | Jeff Koons |
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| Title: | Michael Jackson (and Bubbles) | |
| Date: | 1988 | |
| Nationality: | American | |
| Context: | Postmodernism | |
| Movement: | Neo-Pop Art | |
| Materials: | porcelain sculpture | |
| Subject: Michael Jackson and Bubbles as part of the Banality show, gold polychromed statue that plays up a false aura or allure; kitsch and the Hyperreal; the sacred vs. the profane. Style: Koons commissioned Italian craftsmen to fabricate the sculpture for him; slick, shiny, seductive surfaceheightened for that hyperreal effect;turns the tradition of figurative sculpture into kitsch; false auras and the degraded sublime. Context: late capitalistic, consumer-oriented society in which values are in question; object-lust, but objects emptied of soul, vanitas imagery and the hyperreal; after so many plastic surgeries Michael Jackson was already hyperreal even before Jeff Koons got to him; cult of celebrity. | ||
