Lucky Los Angeles; later this week there is a special screening of Zara Hayes’ recent film about Derek Boshier, which was shown as part of the What Do Artists Do All Day? strand.
Derek Boshier in Pop Go The Women: The Other Story Of Pop Art
May 12th, 2014
//”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.
Documentaries: Up pops Tommy Roberts in Three Swings On A Pendulum (1967)
Jul 31st, 2012
//Roberts, right, tries on a military greatcoat at I Was Lord Kitchener’s Valet//
Look out for an appearance by Tommy Roberts – subject of my new book – in the 1967 documentary Three Swings On A Pendulum, currently available for viewing (in the UK at least) on BBC iPlayer.
Television: Vivian Stanshall – One Man’s Week 1975
Jul 11th, 2011
Broadcast on April 9, 1975, this episode of BBC series One Man’s Week captured Vivian Stanshall at a career high.
Beat This: A Hip Hop History
Feb 3rd, 2011
Excerpt from 1983 BBC documentary Beat This: A Hip Hop History.
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