interview BILL POWERS polaroids by TERRY RICHARDSON Living back on his grandfather’s Pennsylvania farm, JEFF KOONS continues to tap into America’s collective consciousness, replicating its revolutionary icons, The Liberty Bell and The Civil War’s Dictator Cannon. In response to what he considered excessive praise,the playwright Harold Pinter cautioned not to make “too much of a meal.” When confronting the work of Jeff Koons, however, the temptation to make Play-Doh mountains out of pixelated molehills, so to speak, is considerable. But we did our best to control ourselves. BILL POWERS — Why did you incorporate the Liberty Bell into your latest series of paintings? JEFF KOONS — I was thinking of Dali’s Alice in Wonderland. The Liberty Bell has a feminine form even though the texture of the chipped bronze is masculine. I like the idea that it represents a shared cultural history and that it explores the meaning of authorship. A lot…