His work in the early sixties was influenced by psychology and by his reading of Nietzsche, Freud and Jung. In 1963 he received the Prix des Jeunes Artistes at the Paris Biennale. In 1964 he moved to New York and travelled throughout the USA. In New York Hockney drew his attention to the world of mass-produced consumer goods imagery. He worked on a three-dimensional illusionism with obvious erotic components. In 1969 Allen Jones made the sculptures Table Sculpture and Hat Stand (images below), which became the most famous forniphiliac artwork around. The female furniture at the Korova Milkbar scene in Stanley Kubrick's controversial Clockwork Orange (1971) was inspired by this work, but not created by Allen Jones as is sometimes mistakenly claimed.
From 1968 to 1970 he was Guest Lecturer at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg. In 1969 he was Visiting Professor at the University of South Florida, Tampa. In 1973 he was Guest Lecturer at the University of Los Angeles, Irvine. He visited Japan in 1974. He toured Canada in 1975. In 1976 he designed Barbet Schroeder's film Maitresse. In 1977 he was Guest Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, and in the summer of the same year, Visiting Director of Studies in painting and drawing at the Banff Center School of Fine Arts in Alberta, Canada. He designed a hoarding in 1978 for the hosiery factory Fogal at Basle station. He had a large retrospective exhibition in 1979 at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, also shown at the Serpentine Gallery, London, at Sunderland, Baden-Baden and Bielefeld. From 1982 to 1983 he was Guest Professor at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin. In 1986 he was made R.A.
Allen Jones Women and Men
(from Jake Auerbach Films. The first three minutes of this feature documentary)
Allen Jones talks about his sculpture entitled Temple, enabled by the Cass Sculpture Foundation
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