Jeff Koons Archer Michael Goldsmiths College
Jeff Koons Archer Michael Goldsmiths College An examination of a work that captures the spirit of the 1980s -- commodification, seduction, and political inactivity.In Jeff Koons's One Ball Total…
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Jeff Koons Archer Michael Goldsmiths College
An examination of a work that captures the spirit of the 1980s -- commodification, seduction, and political inactivity.In Jeff Koons's One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (1985), a Spalding basketball floats in the center of a glass tank that stands on a four-legged black metal structure. It captured a spirit of the time, characterized by commodification, seduction, and political inactivity. It has been called one of the defining works of the 1980s -- but also described (by such critics as Craig Owens, Rosalind Krauss, and Hal Foster) as "an endgame," "misleading," and "repulsive." The work presents what the artist called "the ultimate state of being" -- neither death nor life but the absence of change.
But the "total equilibrium" of the work is actually temporary. Its stillness embodied the opposite of social revolution. For purely physical reasons, the equilibrium is lost
Jeff Koons
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