Sculpture; Electric signs; Electric lighting; Lighting; Lamps; Light bulbs; Names; Artists' signatures; Language; Anamorphic images
"This relates to another work of 1968, My Name As Though It Were Written on the Surface of the Moon, also in neon. The latter, slightly more legibly, reads: 'bbbbbbrrrrrruuuuuucccccceeeeee'. It has been suggested that it may have been a...
Mixed media assemblage including: an old wooden door, black velvet, bricks, wooden table, leather stretched over an armature of metal and other material to form a female nude, human hair, gas lamp (bec Auer type), twigs, aluminum, iron, glass,...
Discovered in Pompeii.
"With its fluted shaft and slightly flared bottom, the candelabrum rests on a tripod shaped like lion's paws, partially covered by a double plant-motif sheath. Three palmettes, one broken, ornament the space between the...
"Prometheus and Hercules, a sculpture by Koch, sits on the windowsill between the artist and his model." (excerpt from: Lopate, Phillip, et al. John Koch: Painting a New York Life. New York: Historical Society; London: Scala, 2001, p.66)