{"data":{"id":"7399","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":7399,"topgoose_id":11180,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":7399,"title":"New Hoover Convertibles, Green, Blue; New Hoover Convertibles, Green, Blue; Doubledecker","display_artist_text":"Jeff Koons","display_date":"1981–1987","accession_number":"89.30a-k","dimensions":"Overall: 116 × 41 × 28 in. (294.6 × 104.1 × 71.1 cm)","medium":"Four vacuum cleaners, acrylic, and fluorescent lights","department":"collection","classification":"Sculpture","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from The Sondra and Charles Gilman, Jr. Foundation, Inc., and the Painting and Sculpture Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeff Koons, \u003cem\u003eNew Hoover Convertibles, Green, Blue; New Hoover Convertibles, Green, Blue; Doubledecker\u003c/em\u003e, 1981–1987. Four vacuum cleaners, acrylic, and fluorescent lights, overall: 116 × 41 × 28 in. (294.6 × 104.1 × 71.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Sondra and Charles Gilman, Jr. Foundation, Inc., and the Painting and Sculpture Committee 89.30a-k. © Jeff Koons\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eJeff Koons began his artistic career in the 1980s by emphasizing the conspicuous consumption that defined the era. He made his mark in the art world with a 1980 exhibition in the window of the New Museum in New York, titled The New, in which \u003ci\u003eNew Hoover Convertibles\u003c/i\u003e was included. With an irony reminiscent of Marcel Duchamp, who in 1917 exhibited a urinal as a work of art, Koons placed brand-new, store-bought vacuum cleaners in a sterile, fluorescent-lit vitrine that protects them from the dirt and grime they are designed to remove. By thoroughly transforming the expected context and use of the vacuum cleaners, and by raising domestic appliances to the realm of fine art, Koons makes us question not only our assumptions of what constitutes art, but society’s obsession with cleanliness, efficiency, and newness. “I don’t seek to make consumer icons,” Koons explained, “but to decode why and how consumer objects are glorified.”\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Four upright vacuum cleaners, two green and two blue, displayed on two clear shelves inside a transparent case.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:39:57.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:36.084-05:00","images":[{"id":98778,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/7399/89_30a-v_vw1_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"3310","type":"artist"}]}}}}