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...BOTTOM LINE: Koons adds a depressing footnote to Pop art with his self- promoting devotion to gloss and glitz...
Koons' work is a late footnote to Pop art that relies on one obsessive device: the exaggeration of the aura of consumer objects, a devotion to gloss and glitz. An ice bucket or a set of "limited-edition" whiskey bottles in the form of a choo-choo train is recast in stainless steel; a porcelain effigy of Michael Jackson with his pet ape is slathered in bright gold glaze. Once in a while, Koons contrives an image of curious intensity, such as Rabbit, 1986, a stainless-steel cast of an inflatable plastic bunny, once pneumatic, now rigid and manically shiny...
...suit, an American voice and an Indian face," a Catholic homosexual who was taught by Irish nuns in a parochial school in Northern California, a scholar of English literature whose Spanish retains a gringo accent. He steadfastly refuses to give any of these identities primacy, to allow any one gloss on his thought...
...Kennedy Scholar and Visiting Fellow in the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs in Boston. He is well connected and indebted to valuable sources on both sides of the Atlantic. His acknowledgments read like a Tina Brown guest list. But his book does not have the consistent gloss of an official biography. In fact, young J.F.K. emerges as a bright, charming dilettante to whom everything came a little too easily...
...beyond the gloss of the prepackaged booklet, the genuine article sometimes doesn't look so appealing. Proctor James G. Millard '94 says some of his proctees have clearly articulated their ambivalence towards Harvard. "They have no interest in coming here...