3. Allen Jones – Table
Allen Jones is widely known for his controversial sculptures, upsetting a generation of feminists with his female figures. These Pop art pieces, made in the late Sixties and early Seventies, consist of fibreglass female models posed as items of furniture, present at the artist’s recent retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts. Table (1969), is a life-size, pornographically perfect woman on all fours; the figure wears knee-high boots with spike heels, black gloves, a black corset which displays her balloon-like breasts. To make her and other works like Chair (1969), Jones worked with a company that produced waxworks for Madame Tussauds.