Colour Matters av Allen Jones

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<p><span>In this beautifully executed, concertina-fold book, Allen Jones RA explores the human form and how painting <i>on</i> a figure is a vastly different process, and has vastly different results, to painting <i>from</i> a figure.</span></p><p><span> </span></p><span></span><p><span>The first half of the book features detail photography of the artist’s sculpture series Waiting on Table</span><span>. The second half concertinas out to reveal the front and back of one of Jones’s most prominent sculptures, <i>A Muse</i>, which can also be displayed as a wall hanging.</span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span>For many years as a student, Jones had to draw from casts of Greek and Roman sculptures. Over time he developed a reverence for their idealised bodies, heightened by the tactile purity of the white marble. It seemed sacrilegious to him, theref