Artist of the Week - Allen Jones

The artist I am studying the work of this week, is Allen Jones. I heard of Allen Jones in my 'theory as practise' lectures and seminars and wanted to look at his work in more detail as it is controversial and stylish, however with sexual differences and stereotypes. 

This first image came from a photo shoot he did in 1969.
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It is of a women being made into a chair he does this with the majority of his images by making women into furniture, it was a revolution of photo shoots when he started, taking this kind of images as they were seen as indecent yet sexy. Personally, I think the images look quirky but offensive, I think for a women to be made into furniture so she can be walked all over and sat on is offensive, however. I also feel that the images look classy and show a different side to the image such as we are strong women and unbreakable we are defiant. I think that everyone will have their own perspectives on Allen's work and everyone will have a different perspective. 

Katie.