Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and WomanSue Tate2013

This richly illustrated book follows Boty from unusual family and then highly fortuitous educational circumstances at Wimbledon School of Art (where she acquired the nickname The Wimbledon Bardot), to the Royal College of Art. The book provides insight into the College at a specific moment in history with statistical evidence demonstrating the difficulties women had to face. Author Sue Tate also argues that the attitude towards women at the College at the time dented Boty’s confidence, however it returned when she began to exhibit, and was featured in Ken Russell’s Pop Goes the Easel - an innovative film for the BBC’s Monitor series, produced in 1962.