{"title":"Allen Jones","description":"\u003cp\u003eAllen Jones (b. 1937, Southampton) is a British painter and sculptor central to the British Pop Art movement. His work is characterised by bold colour, erotic figuration and the appropriation of commercial imagery, particularly the stylised female form drawn from fashion illustration and fetish culture. His furniture sculptures of 1969 — life-size female figures used as tables, chairs and hat stands — remain among the most contested objects in postwar British art, provoking debate about the relationship between art, desire and the objectification of women that has only intensified over time.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jeffrey-spalding-abcs-of-pop-art-america-britain-canada-fsu-2000","title":"JEFFREY SPALDING — ABCs of Pop Art: America, Britain, Canada, Museum of Fine Arts FSU, 2000","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Spalding, \u003cem\u003eABCs of Pop Art: America, Britain, Canada — Major Artists and Their Legacy\u003c\/em\u003e. Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 2000. Square paperback; 64 pages, 21 × 21 cm; colour and black-and-white offset printing; metallic silver wrappers. ISBN 1-889282-07-3.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compact institutional survey of Pop Art organised alphabetically across artists from America, Britain and Canada. Reproductions are paired with short biographical and collection records, turning a sprawling movement into a sequence of discrete, easily circulated entries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom America: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg anchor the canonical history, alongside Tom Wesselmann, Arman, George Segal, Robert Indiana, Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Jenny Holzer, Alex Katz, David Salle, Wayne Thiebaud and David Gilhooly. From Britain: Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake and Eduardo Paolozzi as founding figures, with Patrick Caulfield, Allen Jones, R. B. Kitaj, Joe Tilson, Peter Phillips, John Latham, Bruce McLean, Tony Cragg and Michael Craig-Martin. From Canada: Iain Baxter, Michael Snow and Joyce Wieland as central figures, alongside David Buchan, Greg Curnoe, Gathie Falk, Dennis Burton, Attila Richard Lukacs, Tony Urquhart, John Will, David Gilhooly, Chris Cran and Russell Yuristy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe design is particularly of its moment: metallic silver covers, red-and-blue consumer imagery, outlined typography and an interior somewhere between exhibition catalogue, directory and reference manual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePop Art reorganised as an alphabet. Artist, image, nationality, biography, collection: a movement broken down into portable units of information. The familiar American\/British history is expanded to include Canada, with figures including Iain Baxter, Michael Snow and David Buchan entering the same classificatory system as Warhol and Hamilton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication does more than document a canon. Through selection, naming and adjacency, it participates in constructing one. Pop’s own mechanisms — reproduction, repetition, graphic shorthand and mass circulation — are used to package Pop itself. The artwork becomes reproduction. The artist becomes entry. The movement becomes index.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good to very good. Light rubbing and handling wear to the metallic wrappers, minor edge and corner wear and a few faint surface marks. Interior clean from inspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54216388477266,"sku":"SPALDING-MOAFAFSU-CAT-2000","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Spalding_Jeffrey.ABC_sofPopArt_America_Britain_Canada_MajorArtistsandTheirLegacy_Paperback_January1_2000.jpg?v=1786289051"},{"product_id":"die-puppe-aspekte-zum-bild-der-frau-bellmer-warhol-jones-1971","title":"HANS BELLMER, ANDY WARHOL, ALLEN JONES et al. — Die Puppe: Aspekte zum Bild der Frau, Haus am Waldsee \/ Schloss Morsbroich \/ Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1971","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished for the travelling 1971 exhibition \u003cem\u003eDie Puppe: Aspekte zum Bild der Frau\u003c\/em\u003e (The Doll: Aspects of the Image of Woman), moving from Haus am Waldsee in Berlin to Schloss Morsbroich and the Frankfurter Kunstverein, this compact catalogue gathers a remarkably heterogeneous field around one increasingly unstable subject: the manufactured image of woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition brought together Werner Berges, Saskia de Boer, KP Brehmer, Bob Graham, Richard Hamilton, Paul van Hoeydonck, Allen Jones, Harro Jacob, Dieter Lötsch, Male, Siegfried Neuenhausen, Mel Ramos, Bernard Schultze, URSULA (Ursula Schultze-Bluhm), Andy Warhol, Günter Weseler and Tom Wesselmann, while the catalogue also invokes Hans Bellmer, whose disarticulated dolls of the 1930s provide an unavoidable historical prehistory to its subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat breadth is precisely what makes \u003cem\u003eDie Puppe\u003c\/em\u003e interesting. This isn’t a tidy Pop exhibition. Bellmer’s psychologically charged doll collides with Hamilton and Warhol’s world of reproduced images; Jones, Ramos and Wesselmann push the eroticised female body toward commodity and sign; Berges and Brehmer expose the mechanics of mass-media reproduction; while artists including URSULA, Bernard Schultze, Neuenhausen and Weseler pull the subject elsewhere into object, fantasy, assemblage and physical form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne spread makes the entire proposition unusually visible. Werner Berges’s \u003cem\u003eThree Beauties\u003c\/em\u003e (1969) sits opposite the commercial advertisement from which its figures were derived, followed through successive reductions into cut-out silhouettes and sculptural objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoman → advertisement → image → outline → object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd 1971 matters. The exhibition appeared precisely as the politics surrounding who produced images of women, for whom and under whose gaze were becoming impossible to keep outside the museum. \u003cem\u003eDie Puppe\u003c\/em\u003e does not arrive as a resolved feminist critique; its contradictions are more historically useful than that. A predominantly male field examines femininity as an image just as that image itself is becoming contested territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeen fifty-five years later, the catalogue therefore reads almost like a document caught between two histories: the Surrealist woman as projection and the coming feminist critique of representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe physical object carries that tension beautifully. Its off-white cover reduces a woman’s face to a circular photographic fragment above two enormous abstracted bodily forms, interrupted only by painted lips. Inside, artworks appear beside advertising photographs and source imagery, allowing artwork and visual culture to contaminate one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA modest exhibition catalogue from a moment when the question was quietly changing from how to depict a woman to who constructs the image of woman in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e19 × 20 cm. 64 unnumbered pages; 32 black-and-white illustrations. Original paper-covered boards with black cloth spine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good vintage condition. General age toning and surface marking to the pale covers, with light handling, edge and corner wear; black cloth spine intact. Interior clean and well preserved overall. Wear consistent with more than fifty years of circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haus am Waldsee \/ Städtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich \/ Frankfurter Kunstverein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54267938013522,"sku":"BELLMER-HAUSWALDSEE-CAT-1971","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Bellmer_Hans.Warhol_Andy.Jones_AllanetalDiePuppe1971.jpg?v=1786769670"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/allen-jones.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}