Jeff Koons is, by measures understood in Wall Street, the most successful living artist. But he’s a slick brand manager rather than a tormented creative soul. The Koons brand includes a stainless steel bust of Louis XIV, a red aluminium lobster and balloon dogs, plus countless knock-offs of novelty-store dross.
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Available from the Spectator Bookshop, £16.45 Tel: 08430 600033. Stephen Bayley’s Ugly: The Aesthetics of Everything was published in 2012.
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