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Part of his <em>Banality<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n","short_description":"This unsettling sculpture by Jeff Koons subverts the traditional subject of a bathing woman. Koons explained: \u201cThere\u2019s a snorkel and somebody is doing something to her under the water because she\u2019s grabbing her breasts for protection. But the viewer also wants to victimize her.\u201d Part of a series featuring oddly eroticized, comic, and kitsch images, the subject of the work is taste itself.","dimensions":"60.3 \u00d7 91.4 \u00d7 68.6 cm (23 3\/4 \u00d7 36 \u00d7 27 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":68,"width":91,"height":60,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Porcelain","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Collection of Stefan T. Edlis and H. 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