Pop Goes the Easel (1962 film)

Pop Goes the Easel
Directed by	Ken Russell
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Huw Wheldon
Editor	Allan Tyrer
Running time	42 minutes
Production company	BBC TV
Original release
Network	BBC
Release	25 March 1962 (1962-03-25) [1]

Pop Goes the Easel is a 1962 British documentary directed by Ken Russell commissioned by the BBC's Monitor arts' television series. ^[2] It is a portrait of pop artists Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty and Peter Phillips in a style owing a little to their own. ^{[3] [4]}

The documentary was preceded by an introduction from Huw Wheldon, who noted that pop culture was "a world which you can dismiss if you feel so inclined as tawdry and second rate, but a world in which everyone to some degree lives whether they like it or not". ^[5]

References

1. Clegg, Michael (2018). ""The Art Game": Television, Monitor, and British Art at the turn of the 1960s". British Art Studies (8): 71–104. doi: 10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-08/mclegg . ISSN   2058-5462.
2. Brooke, Michael (2003–14). "Pop Goes the Easel (1962)". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
3. Wyver, John (2015). "The Filmic Fugue of Ken Russell's Pop Goes the Easel" (PDF). Journal of British Cinema and Television. 12 (4): 438–451. doi:10.3366/jbctv.2015.0279. ISSN   1743-4521.
4. Spalding, Frances (28 October 2007). "Pop Goes the Easel". The Sunday Times. London. p. 49.
5. Mulvey, Laura (2007). "Introduction". In Mulvey, Laura & Sexton, Jamie (eds.). Experimental British Television. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 10. ISBN   978-0719075544.

External links

• Pop Goes the Easel at IMDb
• Monitor: Pop Goes the Easel, BBC website
• Pop Goes the Easel at Letterbox DVD