Arts & Humanities Annual College Lecture 2024
The School of Art History & Cultural Policy is delighted to host the 2024 Arts & Humanities Annual College Lecture on Thursday 18th April in Theatre N at 18:00, followed by a drinks reception in the Françoise Henry Reading Room.
We are honoured that the distinguished scholar Lynda Nead, Professor of Art History at Birkbeck, University of London, has accepted our invitation to talk; her subject concerns the 1960s Pop artist Pauline Boty:
In the 1960s a new kind of youthful femininity emerged from the postwar landscape. Part of a new regional and class configuration and a changing moral and sexual environment, Sixties femininity was described as natural, energetic, impulsive and self-sufficient; an urban figure who embodied modernity and was a staple of fashion photography and sixties cinema. The work and life of British
Pop artist Pauline Boty expresses many of the tensions for young women in the 1960s, the possibilities and constraints, liberation and collusion. This lecture considers Boty’s work in the context of shifts in morality and sexuality in the period and the broader culture of film and photography in these years.