The Full View – from the floor

Talking about the series, Jones explained:

The New Perspective on Floors was printed so that it was necessary to fold the paper 6 inches from the bottom in order for the image to be viewed correctly.  I liked the idea of folding a print.  Usually people who buy folios hardly ever thumb them – just pride of possession.  With these floors, nothing works unless they actually take out the prints and fold them each time.  That is some kind of commitment, when a collector has the responsibility of folding something for which he has paid money.  I had hoped, of course, that it would be a pleasurable task allowing him to participate in making the completed image.

This is quoted from Marco Livingstone’s text in Allen Jones Prints, Prestel, Munich, 1995.  This publication also provides the identification letter (title) for each print, as below:

36A

36A

36B

36B

36C

36C

36D

36D

36E

36E

36F

36F 2

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