Jeff Koons: One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank
- ISBN-10
- 1846380782
- ISBN-13
- 9781846380785
- Series
- Jeff Koons
- Category
- Pop art
- Pages
- 105
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Author
- Michael Archer
Description
"In Jeff Koons's One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (1985), a Spalding basketball floats in the centre of a glass tank that rests on a simple black metal stand. The work presents what Koons called 'the penultimate state of being' - neither death nor life, but a suspended state of rest. It has been called one of the defining works of the 1980s, but was also described as 'an endgame', 'misleading' and part of a 'repulsive' practice.
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