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Jeff Koons - One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Paperback)
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Jeff Koons - One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Paperback)
Series: Afterall Books / One Work
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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 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. It captured a spirit of the time, characterized
by commodification, seduction, and political inactivity. Its
stillness embodied the opposite of social revolution. But the
"total equilibrium" of the work is actually temporary. For purely
physical reasons, the equilibrium is lost every six months and must
be reset. In this extended essay on Koons's famous work, Michael
Archer puts One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank in an art historical
framework, describing its initial exhibition at International With
Monument in New York and related issues of media, commercialism,
and class. He discusses the wider context of the 1980s art world,
in which a renewed attention to painting practices met the legacy
of Pop and appropriation art-setting the stage for the negative
critical reception Koons's artwork first received. Archer goes on
to consider sport as celebrity-maker and industry; the physical
science of equilibrium; and the implications of the fact that the
equilibrium of One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank is indeed total-but
temporary.
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