Jeff Koons: Lost in America brings together more than 60 of the artist's most iconic sculptures
and paintings along with new productions and recently completed works. Edited by curator
Masimilliano Gioni the book focuses in particular on Koons' art as seen in relation to
contemporary American culture. With his aesthetics of plenitude and his pop-up dreams of social
mobility and acceptance throughout his career Koons has composed a fantasy America [...]
custom-made from art and schmaltz and emotions-to use Warhol's description of his own
interpretation of American culture. Through the inclusion of source materials personal
recollections and biographical narratives the book reads each of Koons' celebrated series
through the prism of his biography and the ways in which his individual history intersects with
that of his country and culture. Ranging from his upbringing in rural Pennsylvania to his
fascination for popular culture and vernacular art the publication composes an unconventional
view of Jeff Koons and his work retracing the personal influences and cultural histories that
have shaped Koons's unique formal vocabulary. Published to accompany the major exhibition in
Doha in March 2021 the catalogue features an interview with Jeff Koons by the curator and
essays by the well-known art critic Dodie Kazanjian and the Qatari-American writer and artist
Sophia Al Maria.
