(Art and Design Monographs). 

 

Testo In Inglese. 

 

Scritti di: Charles Jencks, Victor Arwas, Bryan Robertson.

 

The first of a series of art monographs on contemporary artists. Royal Academician Allen Jones is famous for his extreme statements as a Pop artist such as the fibreglass "furniture" sculptures of life-sized women dressed in leather thigh boots and bondage wear.

One of the most successful British artists associated with Pop art in the 60s, Allen Jones is one of the most prolific artists working in Britain today. He is perhaps best known as a painter of uniquely sophisticated and brilliantly colored canvases which are an ambiguous mixture of abstract and figurative elements and also of flat, graphic and solid forms. His recurring theme is the obsessive use of the female figure as derived from commercial imagery which he explores as three-dimensional form perceived in two dimensions. This highly illustrated monograph presents essays as well as a pictorial survey of Jones' work - including his prints, sculptures and paintings - from the early 60s to the present day.