Sixties Blonde: Pauline Boty and Pop Self-Portraiture – a talk by Lynda Nead

The work of British pop artist Pauline Boty expresses many of the social changes and tensions for young women in Britain in the 1960s. This lecture will look at Boty’s work and, in particular, her self-portraits and photographic portraits of her, in the context of shifts in morality and sexuality in the period and the changing image of youthful femininity.

 

Lynda Nead is Visiting Professor of Art History at the Courtauld Institute, London and one of the most respected art historians in Britain. She has published widely on the history of British art and on gender, sexuality and visual representation.