Allen Jones’s Pop Art paintings are icons of “swinging London”, while his controversial furniture sculptures helped set the dystopian mood of the 1970s, the era of A Clockwork Orange and punk, on which he exerted a crucial influence. Through it all, his art has not stood still. From early shaped canvases to current experiments with virtual reality and AI, Jones’s career has developed through a succession of formal innovations – or “moves”, as he calls them. 

Generously illustrated with many seldom seen images, this book examines Jones’s personal iconography, and – not least – his contested approach to the female form. While some have claimed that his work uncritically reflects the “male gaze”, it has addressed themes of gender convergence and interchangeability from the outset.