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Woman in Tub, 1988
| Content Provider | Art Institute of Chicago |
|---|---|
| Artist | Jeff Koons |
| Spatial Coverage | United States |
| Temporal Coverage | 1988 |
| Description | Woman in Tub, based on a postcard, depicts a female nude acting out a crude sexual joke in the bathtub. Jeff Koons explained: “There's a snorkel and somebody is doing something to her under the water because she's grabbing her breasts for protection. But the viewer also wants to victimize her.” The cartoonlike rendering of the form belies the exquisite hard-paste porcelain finish, typical of 18th-century Rococo figurines. Part of his Banality series, which is characterized by oddly eroticized, comic, and kitsch images, this work demonstrates Duchampian and Pop Art strategies of appropriation and, combining imagery from multiple sources, makes the primary subject taste itself. [Sculpture of a naked light-skinned woman with red nail polish and dark hair sitting in a bathtub of soapy water. She holds her breasts with both hands, her mouth open in a look of surprise. The rest of her face and head is not present in the work. A bright blue snorkel protrudes from the water between her legs.] |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © 1988 Jeff Koons |
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| Use Rights URL | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| Subject Keyword | Sculpture Artworks Contemporary Art |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Visual Artwork |
| Object Type | Sculpture |
