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“British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War Britain” by Lynda Nead. Jacket Image: Pauline Boty backcombing her hair in ‘Pop Goes the Easel’, Monitor (BBC Television, 1962; dir. Ken Russell), frame still. © BBC

THE SIXTIES ART SCENE IN LONDON
1993, by David Mellor. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Barbican Centre, Phaidon.

THE ONLY BLONDE IN THE WORLD: PAULINE BOTY (1938-1966)
1998, by Sue Watling and David Alan Mellor.  Exhibition catalogue for Whitford Fine Art and The Mayor Gallery Ltd. London, AM Publications.

THE ONLY BLONDE IN THE WORLD
2006, by Bill Smith. “Latest Art, Issue 2”, pp. 10–15

POP’S LADIES AND BAD GIRLS: AXELL, PAULINE BOTY AND ROSALYN DREXLER
2007, by Kalliopi Minioudaki. Oxford Art Journal, Vol 30, Issue 3 (2007), pp. 402–430

NOW YOU SEE HER: PAULINE BOTY, FIRST LADY OF BRITISH POP
2007, by Adam Smith.

RE-OCCUPYING THE EROTIC BODY: THE PAINTINGS AND “PERFORMANCE” OF PAULINE BOTY, BRITISH POP ARTIST (1938-66)
2007, by Sue Tate. In “Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging”, Rumens, Nick & Alejandro Cervantes-Carson (Eds). Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, NY

FORWARD VIA A FEMALE PAST”: PAULINE BOTY AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL PROMISE OF THE WOMAN POP ARTIST
2008, by Sue Tate. In “Feminism Reframed, Reflections on Art and Difference”, A M Kokoli (Ed). Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Newcastle, pp. 177-205

A TRANSGRESSION TOO FAR: WOMEN ARTISTS AND THE BRITISH POP ART MOVEMENT
2010, by Sue Tate. In “Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958–68”, Sachs, S and Minioudaki, K (Eds). University of the Arts, Philadelphia and Abbeville Press, New York and London

PAULINE BOTY: POP ARTIST AND WOMAN
2013, by Sue Tate, Wolverhampton Art Gallery with the Paul Mellon Foundation.

THIS WAS TOMORROW: THE INVENTION OF POP ART IN GREAT BRITAIN
2016, by Ralf Beil and Uta Ruhkamp. Wienand Verlag & Medien.

PAULINE BOTY: POP ARTIST, POP PERSONA, PERFORMING ACROSS THE “LONG FRONT OF CULTURE”
2017, by Sue Tate. In “Pop Art and Design” by Alex, Seago and Anne Massey, Bloomsbury Academic.

MODERNISTS & MAVERICKS: BACON, FREUD, HOCKNEY AND THE LONDON PAINTERS
2018, by Martin Gayford. Thames & Hudson.

LONDON’S NEW SCENE: ART AND CULTURE IN THE 1960s
2020, by Lisa Tickner. Thames & Hudson. Paul Mellon Centre.

THE HIDDEN MOD IN MODERN ART: LONDON, 1957-1969
2020, by Thomas Crow. Paul Mellon Centre.

BRIGHT STARS: GREAT ARTISTS WHO DIED TOO YOUNG
2021, by Kate Bryan. Frances Lincoln.

REVISITING MODERN BRITISH ART
2022, edited by Jo Baring. Lund Humphries.

THE STORY OF ART WITHOUT MEN
2022, by Katy Hessel. Hutchinson Heinemann.

PAULINE BOTY: BRITISH POP ART’S SOLE SISTER
2023, by Marc Kristal. Frances Lincoln.

WHAT ART CAN TELL US ABOUT LOVE
2025, by Nick Trend. Laurence King.

BRITISH BLONDE: WOMEN, DESIRE AND THE IMAGE IN POST-WAR BRITAIN
2025, by Lynda Nead. Paul Mellon Centre.