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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Gift message signed by author in front. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Typified by Warhol’s soup cans and Marilyn Monroe screen prints or Lichtenstein’s magnified comic book frames it brought the colourful dynamic imagery of low mass culture – advertising. pin-ups movies comics pop music domestic consumables – into the hallowed halls of the art gallery. Referencing the immersive visual environment within which everyone moved Pop was very accessible. It quickly became popular with a wide audience and found success on the art market. Pauline Boty born in 1938 was a talented ambitious well-educated and politically radical artist. She was also a beautiful vivacious woman who embraced a ‘pop’ identity on the ‘swinging London’ scene. One of the founders of British Pop Art she studied at the Royal College of Art (RCA) a focal point for the movement where she met befriended and went on to exhibit with Sir Peter Blake Derek Boshier Patrick Caulfield and David Hockney all key figures in Pop Art. (fig. 0:1) Boty described Pop as ‘a nostalgia for now and used its visual language to give form to the yearnings and pleasures of the female pop ‘fan’. (LL)