In Jeff Koons’ 1981 piece New Shelton Wet/Dry Doubledecker two pristine, identical vacuum cleaners sit, one on top of the other, in a hermetically sealed plexiglass box.
The piece belongs to Koons’ series The New, which featured other innocent, imprisoned dust guzzlers displayed and lit like historical artefacts.
The intention: to highlight the rug suckers’ “integrity of birth…newness…treating them like eternal virgins”.
The result: pure kitsch.
https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2021/02/27/weekend-writing-prompt-198-kitsch/
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Am I Reading Too Much into This? 
Laughing.
What a crock!
Well done
Thank you! 🙂
Well, art is in the eye of the beholder I guess!
Indeed! 🙂
ART is suffering a slow death, I’m afraid. At least we can laugh before we’re all subjects of canned laughter. 😉
A unique piece!
Thanks for reading! 🙂
The vacuum cleaners aren’t the only suckers it seems!
My 69!
Well, it’s clean “art” anyway! 🙂
Haha! 🙂