New Writings

The Look of the 1960s: Barbarella and Pulp Pop Comics

Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey discuss the vibrant collision of pop art, comics and cinema in a decade of radical change.

  • Total running time 90min

In their new book, The Look of the 1960s: Barbarella and the Pulp Pop Comics, Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey offer an original account of how pop art, comics and cinema interacted with each other through a decade of profound social and cultural change. Key international pulp pop figures revisited include Guy Peellaert, Eric Losfeld, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais and William Klein, alongside powerful counterculture influencers Delphine Seyrig, Jean Boullet and Richard Seaver. This talk introduces their world.

Tickets £6.50.