Koons’ kinky and kitsch conceptual work includes basketballs in tanks, stainless steel blow-ups, topiary dog sculptures and Michael Jackson and Bubbles in porcelain. No artist since Warhol has made the banal appear so profound, and the trivial carry such import.

Included is a biographical essay, an analysis of Koons from a European perspective and a scholarly study of his work. With hundreds of large format full colour images, the publication traces Koons' career from 1979 to today. A sumptuous objet d'art —he says so himself— and the definitive overview of Koons' work.

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About the editor:
Hans Werner Holzwarth was a photographer before launching a corporate design firm. He has collaborated on book designs with Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince, Kiki Smith, and John Waters.

About the authors:
Eckhard Schneider was head of the Nordhorn Municipal Gallery 1976-89; business manager and artistic director of the Kunstverein Hannover, 1990-2000, and director of Kunsthaus Bregenz 2000-08. He is currently general manager of the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev, Ukraine. Katy Siegel is an associate professor of art history and criticism at Hunter College-CUNY, and a contributing editor to Artforum. She has written extensively about modern and contemporary art including, most recently, catalogue essays on Richard Tuttle, Takashi Murakami, and Dana Schutz. Ingrid Sischy is a Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair. A former staff writer, photography and fashion critic at The New Yorker, she was editor in chief of Interview, 1989-2008. She has profiled Keith Haring, David Hockney, Jeff Koons, Nicole Kidman, and Madonna, among many others.