Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosentha

The most successful of living artists, Jeff Koons has been in the spotlight of creative fascination and significance for more than thirty years, but has always remained guarded with his intellectual life, influences and motivation. The renowned curator and long-time Koons friend and collaborator Sir Norman Rosenthal has, for the first time, removed that guard. This essential book provides the most revealing portrait yet of Jeff Koons' singular personality and artistic vision. Rosenthal's exquisite interviews, conducted over the course of four years, give unparalleled access to Koons' thoughts, portraying the artist undistorted and in his own words. As well as examining all his main series in depth, from his first inflatables to his latest series on antiquities, the interviews shed a new light on the artist's interest in other artists' works, revealing the significance of his youth and family life on his art, and explaining the main concepts of his practice, such as his thoughts on self- acceptance, banality,