Jim Connell or set clayart mail on sun 29 sep 96
WINTHROP UNIVERSITY Electronic Mail Message
Date: 28-Sep-1996 10:34am EDT
From: James Connell
CONNELLJ
Dept: Art and Design
Tel No: 323-2126
TO: Remote Addressee ( _SMTP%"clayart@lsv.uky.edu" )
Subject: Jeff Koons
I'm trying to locate a magazine or publication, printed about five years ago
that had a picture of a Jeff Koons work that got him into a bit of a pickel. It
seems that he made a ceramic piece about a big litter of puppies and it was a
direct copy of an artist's painting (or was it a photograph?). He was being
sued for the rights and the article had both the original and the Koons lift.
Does anyone remember the magazine it was published in? I know I have that image
somewhere in my vast array of publication but have turned up empty so far.
Help and TIA,
Jim
Veronika Jenke on mon 30 sep 96
______Assistant Curator of Education
______National Museum of African Art, S.I.
I believe the appropriation was from photograph to print. I don't remember the
source - sorry.
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gulacsy@bigvax.alfred.edu on tue 1 oct 96
You might check Jane Greenstein "Double vision: puppy dog tales." in
Art & Antiques, v. 7, p. 23, January 90. (Art Rogers' suit against
Jeff Koons for copyright infringement)
Elizabeth
gulacsy@bigvax.alfred.edu
Scholes Library,NYS College of Ceramics
J PLEAK on wed 2 oct 96
A few years back I think in 88 or in 86 when this happened the original is
a photograph of 8 puppies by Art Rogers and Jeff Koons purchased it in a
shop he then sent it to Italy to some wood carvers and had them make-an
exact copy- only to put some flowers on the head of the man and the ears of
the woman and put some character noses on the dogs. The man who originally
had the photo taken with his wife. Went to the museum in San Fran and saw
his photo and called Art Rogers who then sued Jeff Koons. The case is
really interesting and I have my intro to art students redo it. They have
had great results getting ahold of Art Rogers and his lawyer and Jeff Koons
lawyers. It is interesting everytine we redo the court case we end up with
the same results. But the work is not in ceramics- There was an addition
of 6 ordered. Hope this helps.At 11:10 AM 9/29/96 EDT, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>
>WINTHROP UNIVERSITY Electronic Mail Message
> Date: 28-Sep-1996 10:34am EDT
> From: James Connell
> CONNELLJ
> Dept: Art and Design
> Tel No: 323-2126
>
>TO: Remote Addressee ( _SMTP%"clayart@lsv.uky.edu" )
>
>
>Subject: Jeff Koons
>
>I'm trying to locate a magazine or publication, printed about five years ago
>that had a picture of a Jeff Koons work that got him into a bit of a
pickel. It
>seems that he made a ceramic piece about a big litter of puppies and it was a
>direct copy of an artist's painting (or was it a photograph?). He was being
>sued for the rights and the article had both the original and the Koons lift.
>
>Does anyone remember the magazine it was published in? I know I have that
image
>somewhere in my vast array of publication but have turned up empty so far.
>
>Help and TIA,
>
>Jim
>
Jim Connell or set clayart mail on fri 4 oct 96
WINTHROP UNIVERSITY Electronic Mail Message
Date: 04-Oct-1996 11:35am EDT
From: James Connell
CONNELLJ
Dept: Art and Design
Tel No: 323-2126
TO: SMTP%"CLAYART@lsv.uky.edu" ( _SMTP%"CLAYART@lsv.uky.edu" )
Subject: Re: Jeff Koons
Thanks to all who responded to my request. I found the article in the June 1992
issue of Art in America. It has visuals of both the original postcard and the
sculpture (in Wood) and reports on the court case. Jeff lost both the original
trial and the appeal but vowed to continue his fight all the way to the US
Supreme Court (does anyone know if it ever reach that far?).
It reported that this was the first decision against an artist infringing on
copyrighted work. Other case were settled out of court (most notably Andy
Warhol, Robert Rauschemberg and Davis Salle), but since they were settled they
never set legal precedents and thus the legal standing on appropriation remained
uncertain.
Jeff also had four other copyright infringement suits to deal with (as of June
1992) including one by MGM for his use of the Pink Panther and another one for
using Odie the dog in the Garfield cartoons.
Of note the original photograph of the puppies was produced for a $250.00
commission and Koons had three sculptures made (by Itailian artisans) and sold
them for $125,000.00 each! Are we in the wrong end of the art business or what?
What a huckster!
Jim
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