BBC Four Goes Pop in August: Derek Boshier commissioned to create new channel ident and also appears in What Do Artists Do All Day? and Pop Goes The Easel
//Boshier features in these panels from BBC Four’s Pop Art-style run-down of the season elements//
British artist Derek Boshier – subject of Rethink/Re-entry, the monograph I have edited which is published this autumn – is to be featured in next month’s BBC season of programmes about Pop Art.
Boshier has been commissioned by the broadcaster to create a new BBC Four ident which will run throughout August alongside new logos produced by his fellow Royal College graduates Peter Blake and Peter Phillips (who starred with Boshier and the late Pauline Boty in Ken Russell’s groundbreaking 1962 BBC documentary Pop Goes The Easel).
Boshier and Blake are also the subjects of new films to be screened as part of the strand What Do Artists Do All Day? during the Pop Art season. Boshier was filmed in his studio in Los Angeles by director Zara Hayes.
And Pop Goes The Easel will be re-screened along with other important Pop Art films, including Roy Lichtenstein: Pop Idol (2004), Monitor 139: Joe Tilson And Peter Brook (1964), Pop Goes To The Hayward (1969) and The Visual Scene: Playing It Cool (1969).
Read all about the BBC’s Pop Art season here.
Derek Boshier: Rethink/Re-entry is published on OCtober 5. Order copies here.