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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 28 pages; Clean and secure in original color wrappers. OCLC 462485550 Measures 21 x 30 cm. Illustrated with 13 b&w plates & 3 colour plates; additional illustrations. Interesting exhibition catalogue from this noted British Pop Artist. Includes a Chronology with biographical and exhibition history. Bibliography of written works by the artist, catalogues, periodicals, books. Listing of Collections holding works by the artist. Exhibition listing of 16 works by the artist. Exhibition held September 5 - 28 1972. Allen Jones RA (1937 - present) is a British pop artist best known for his paintings, sculptures, and lithography. He is a Senior Academician at the Royal Academy of Arts. His works reside in a number of collections; including the Tate, the Museum Ludwig, the Warwick Arts Centre and the Hirshhorn Museum. His best known work Hatstand, Table and Chair, involving fibreglass "fetish" mannequins, debuted to protests in 1970. Intrigued by the "toughness" of American pop art, Jones moved to Manhattan in 1964 and took a studio at the Chelsea Hotel. In New York City, Jones recollects learning to "present what you were saying as clearly as possible," and he developed an interest in making his images tangible. For the year Jones remained in the city, he "discovered a rich fund of imagery in sexually motivated popular illustration of the 1940s and 1950s." According to Jones, about his art of the time: "Fetishism and the transgressive world produced images that I liked because they were dangerous. They were about personal obsessions. They stood outside the accepted canons of artistic expression and they suggested new ways of depicting the figure that weren't dressed up for public consumption." While living in the Chelsea neighbourhood of London in the late 1960s, Jones began working in sculpture, in particular his fibreglass sculpture series of "life-size images of women as furniture with fetishist and sado-masochist overtones." Each of the original three figures was produced in an edition of only six. "Green Table" included in this exhibition is pictured in the catalogue. The severe reaction from the art world, feminists, and the mainstream press after the sculptures' debut would limit Jones' exhibition career in England over the next several decades. When asked about their effect on his career, Jones was quoted stating "it's collateral damage. I wanted to offend the canons of accepted worth in art. I found the perfect image to do that, and it's an accident of history that these works coincided with the arrival of militant feminism." Roman Polanski, Elton John and Gunter Sachs all owned a piece at one stage, with one of the sets selling at auction in 2012 for £2.6 million. The sculptures have also been referenced in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Second issue of the ICA's art journal. Includes cover by Richard Hamilton and Robert Freeman, plus Hamilton's 'Urbane Image', 'Living City' by Warren Chalk and others, 'The American Sublime' by Lawrence Alloway' and Sylvestor's interview with Adolph Gottlieb. 127 p., ill. ; 20 x 21 cm. Shelf wear to edges, creasing to cover corners, laminate lifting at corners, contents very good, no inscriptions, tight and square bindings. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.…

Original Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. Published on the occasion of the exhibition August - September 1961 held as a sequel to the seminal 1960 'Situation' exhibition at R.B.A. Gallery. Artists exhibited were Gillian Ayres, Anthony Caro, Bernard Cohen, Harold Cohen, Peter Coviello, Robyn Denny, Gordon House, John Hoyland, Gwyther Irwin, Robert (Bob) Law, Henry Mundy, John Plumb, Richard Smith, Peter Stroud, Wiliam Turnbull, Mark Vaux, Brian Young. 28 item catalogue with photos of each artist or their studio. Very slight dust soiling to original white covers otherwise a fine copy with no internal marks or blemishes. See David Mellor : 'The Sixties art scene in London' pages 77 -79. Gordon House designer and Robet Freeman photographer (illustratore). …