Allen Jones (artist)
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| - | '''Allen Jones''' (born [[1 September]] [[1937]]) is a [[Great Britain|British]] [[pop art|pop artist]] famous for his exhibition of [[erotic]] [[sculpture]]s, like the set ''[[Chair]]'', ''[[Table]]'' and ''[[Hat Stand]]'' ([[1969]]), each of which turns a woman into an item of furniture. Much of his work draws on the imagery of [[Rubber and PVC fetishism|rubber fetishism]] and [[BDSM]]. | ||
| - | Jones was born in [[Southampton]] and from [[1955]] to [[1961]] studied at the [[Hornsey College of Art]] (London); from 1961 to [[1963]] he taught at [[Croydon College of Art]]. | + | '''Allen Jones''' (born 1 September 1937) is a British [[pop art]]ist best known for his paintings, sculptures, and lithography. He was awarded the Prix des Jeunes Artistes at the 1963 [[Paris Biennale]]. He is a Senior Academician at the [[Royal Academy of Arts]]. |
| - | Jones designed the film ''[[Maîtresse]]'' (dir. Barbet Schroeder, [[1976]]). | + | His best known work ''[[Hatstand, Table and Chair]]'', involving fibreglass "fetish" mannequins, debuted to protests in 1970. |
| - | The sculptures in the [[Korova Milk Bar]] from the film ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' were based on works by Jones. | + | == See also == |
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| - | == ''You Don't Know What's Happening, Do You Mr. Jones?'' (1973) - Laura Mulvey == | + | |
| ''[[You Don't Know What's Happening, Do You Mr. Jones]]'' by [[Laura Mulvey]] | ''[[You Don't Know What's Happening, Do You Mr. Jones]]'' by [[Laura Mulvey]] | ||
| - | :[...] 'You Don't Know What's Happening, Do You Mr. Jones?'" first appeared in 1973 in the British feminist magazine ''[[Spare Rib]]''. In it, [[Laura Mulvey]] critiqued the work of British pop artist Allen Jones who had produced a series of sculptures in 1970 called ''[[Human furniture|Women as Furniture]]'' in which "life-size effigies of women, slave-like and sexually provocative, double as hat-stands, tables and chairs." Some of these may be familiar as they were featured in a scene in Stanley Kubrick's film ''A Clockwork Orange''. Mulvey pointed out that Jones was simply repeating a cultural trope or set of conventions which could be seen in many forms of popular culture and mass media: fashion magazines such as Vogue, Harper's and Bazaar, news magazines such as Life, advertisements of all sorts, TV shows, and films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and [[Barbarella]]. Mulvey's point was that Jones, like many male auteurs in the visual arts was speaking in the language of fetishism. --source unidentified | ||
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Allen Jones (born 1 September 1937) is a British pop artist best known for his paintings, sculptures, and lithography. He was awarded the Prix des Jeunes Artistes at the 1963 Paris Biennale. He is a Senior Academician at the Royal Academy of Arts.
His best known work Hatstand, Table and Chair, involving fibreglass "fetish" mannequins, debuted to protests in 1970.
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You Don't Know What's Happening, Do You Mr. Jones by Laura Mulvey
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