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Pauline Boty - British Pop Art's Sole Sister (Hardcover)
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Pauline Boty - British Pop Art's Sole Sister (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R576
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Pauline Boty (1938 –1966) was a founding member of the British
Pop Art movement and one of its very few women. She attended
London’s Royal College of Art at a watershed moment when its
students included David Hockney,Peter Blake, R.B. Kitaj and Allen
Jones. Dying tragically young at the age of 28, she is now seen as
central to British Pop Art and an icon of Sixties culture. As well
as her work as an artist, she appeared on the stage, TV and in film
(including alongside Michael Caine in Alfie) and was a regular
contributor on BBC radio. She was photographed by David Bailey and
other society photographers and became a key player in 1960s
London’s golden age. Outspoken, provocative and charismatic, she
refused to accept the oppositions between sexual woman and serious
artist, between celebration and critique, between high and low
culture. Observer and participant, feminist and hedonist, subject
and object, Boty’s ‘double vision’ was decades ahead of its
time, and prefigured a diversity of artists—everyone from Cindy
Sherman to Madonna. Having been largely forgotten after her death,
her reputation has been growing steadily since the rediscovery and
exhibition of her works in the early 1990s. As well as cropping up
regularly in various books, documentaries and newspaper articles
since then, she features as a central character in Ali Smith’s
novel Autumn (2016) and one of her works sold for $1.4m at auction
in June 2022. After seeing her work at an auction in 2013, author
Marc Kristal has spent almost ten years researching her life,
interviewing the people who knew her and delving into archives and
libraries. This is the definitive biography of her life and
work, appealing to both those interested in art but in this
creative period of British culture.
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Imprint: |
Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Marc Kristal
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Dimensions: |
245 x 190mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7112-8754-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-7112-8754-6 |
Barcode: |
9780711287549 |
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