Derek Boshier in Pop Go The Women: The Other Story Of Pop Art
//”She was an instigator and an enabler.” Boshier discusses Pauline Boty in Pop Go The Women//
Catch if you can Alistair Sooke’s excellent BBC documentary Pop Go The Women: The Other Story Of Pop Art. Derek Boshier – subject of my next book – is among the interviewees, talking about his contemporary Pauline Boty.
Her work, like the other subjects of the programme, has been neglected in the circumscribed narrative of Pop. In Boshier’s words, Boty is important, not least because she was “an instigator and an enabler” to the male artists who hog the story on both sides of the Atlantic.
//Boshier and Boty captured twisting in Ken Russell’s 1962 BBC documentary Pop Goes The Easel//
//Rosalyn Drexler. In the background her 1967 painting Marilyn Pursued by Death//
The film’s revelation for me is the American Rosalyn Drexler, whose art is identified convincingly by Sooke as “scathing, critical, strong and stern”. Pop Go The Women is available to view on BBC iPlayer for the next five days here.
Derek Boshier: Rethink/Re-Entry is published by Thames & Hudson next spring.