The Anti Uglies

[Dexter St. Clair]

Following on a feature I found about artist Pauline Boty someone kindly pointed twards an article on the

Anti Ugly movement.

[dimairt]

I read the Observer article yesterday - see link - having never heard of her. I showed it this morning to friends of mine who are artists, they didn't know her either.
Caroline Coon claims that "When Pauline Boty died, her art was buried. Then history gets written by a group of men who are excluding her. That exclusion was wilful and conscious … It was misogyny and sexism."
Is her work any good? I think that she's of interest here largely because of her story, her beauty and her connections, not her art. Despite Coon's claims, there are successful, well-known female artists - Bridget Riley, for example, is a contemporary of Boty.

Durachdan,

Eddy


http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/ ... t-lost-art