Pauline Boty

  • Ken Russell – Monitor: Pop Goes the Easel (1962)

    1961-1970DocumentaryKen RussellUnited Kingdom

    A portrait of pop artists Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, and Peter Phillips.

    For the first two years of his directing career for Monitor, Ken Russell had exclusively worked with shorter items of typically 10-15 minutes in length. By 1962, his reputation was such that Monitor’s head Huw Wheldon was prepared to entrust him with a full-length programme. Elgar, broadcast on November 11, was the best known, but a few months earlier Russell made Pop Goes The Easel, a 44-minute set of variations on a theme of Pop Art.Read More »

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