Pop Portraits includes, of course, the famous names (Warhol, Hockney, Rauschenberg) and faces (Andy, Jackie, Elvis) but the show also contains less renowned, though curiously satisfying, examples of the punchy period on both sides of the Atlantic. There's disconcerting wit from Derek Boshier and the tragically short-lived Pauline Boty as well as the sensory assaults of Allen Jones, whose pin-up girls, once deemed naughty, then degrading, are now ironic. And a secular chapel is dedicated to the great blonde goddess/martyr, Marilyn Monroe, who epitomised the collision of sex, fame, money and violence of that exhausting decade.
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FIRST POSTED OCTOBER 12, 2007
Rhoda Koenig
Pop Art Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Oct 11-Jan 20, St Martin's Place, London WC2, 020 7312 2463
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