Liberty Bell

bronze, wood, wrought iron, and cast iron
102  x 72 1/4 x 56 1/4 inches
259.1 x 183.5 x 142.9 cm
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
2006-2014


Liberty Bell

Details

Liberty Bell

bronze, wood, wrought iron, and cast iron
102  x 72 1/4 x 56 1/4 inches
259.1 x 183.5 x 142.9 cm
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
2006-2014

EXHIBITED: 

Jeff Koons: Lost in America. Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Doha, Qatar [November 21, 2021 - March 31, 2022] (Edition 1)

Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, Museo Jumex, Mexico City [May 19 - September 29, 2019] (edition 3)

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain [June 9 - September 27, 2015] (Edition 1)

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France [November 26, 2014 - April 27, 2015] (Edition 1)

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York [June 27 - October 19, 2014] (Edition 1)

LITERATURE: 

Jeff Koons. Lost in America, exh. cat., ed. Massimiliano Gioni (Milan: Skira, 2021).

Angela Savino, "L’arte nell’esperienza neuroestetica," Artribune (Italy), November 3, 2020, online (color ill. Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA installation).

Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even. London: Phaidon, 2019, (color ill. p. 238).

Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even. (Text in Spanish) (London: Phaidon, 2019), p. 238, p. 253.

"Parx Casino Unveils Work by World Renowned Artist: Jeff Koons Sculpture Liberty Bell Comes to the #1 Casino in PA," Business Wire, July 26, 2017

Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), p. 23, p. 201 (color ill. p. 201, pl. 122), p. 263, p. 300.

Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective La Portfolio De L'Exposition/The Retrospective The Portfolio of The Exhibition, ed. Julie Champion, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 134 (color ill. p. 134).

Phillip Tinari, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., in association with Gagosian Gallery, 2015), p. 10 (color ill. p. 10, fig. 4), p. 12.

Peter Schjeldahl, "Selling Points," The New Yorker, July 7 -14, 2014, p. 93.

Ula Ilnytzky, "Jeff Koons' Whimsy Takes Over NYC Museum," ABC News, June 24 2014.

Jaime Lalinde, "How to Make a Koons," Vanity Fair (June 16, 2014), (color ill., work in progress, scanning of model), (color ill., work in progress, CAD scan images), (color ill., work in progress at studio).

Carol Vogel, “Think Big. Build Big. Sell Big,” The New York Times, June 11, 2014 (color ill., work in progress at studio).

Adam Rathe, "Pop Shop," DuJour, Summer 2014, (color ill. p. 138, detail, work in progress at studio).

Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 21, p. 189 (color ill. p. 189, pl. 121, rendering), p. 251, p. 289.

Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 25, p. 197 (color ill. p. 197, pl. 121), p. 263, p. 302.

Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (China: Thames & Hudson, 2014), (color ill. p. 200).

Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014) (color ill. p. 200).

Jason Edward Kaufman, "King of Kitsch," Black Card Mag, Fall 2013, p. 242.

Jerry Saltz, "Creator and Destroyer of Worlds. Taking in the mad perfectionism of Jeff Koons," New York Magazine, June 30 - July 13, 2013, p. 103.

Bill Powers, Interviews with Artists, (New York: Gagosian, 2013), p. 277, p. 278.

Sarah Brown “Kiehl’s Goes Koons,” Vogue, October 2010, p. 124.

Luther Blissett, "Les obsessions majeures de Koons," (Text in French) Beaux Arts/TTM éditions (Paris), 2008, (color ill. p. 41, detail, work in progress at studio).

Calvin Tomkins, "The Turnaround Artist," The New Yorker, April 23, 2007, p. 67.