Sex, guns and pop art the forgotten pioneers who shook up British culture
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From 1958 to 1962, the Danad collective lived and worked together in a bohemian commune. Peter Blake and others involved tell the story as a new show reveals the art
Peter Blake – godfather of pop art – will be 88 in June, and appears to be feeling his age. He says that he is too old for parties now but then “you’re not gallivanting around in your late 80s”. The reason he didn’t have his knees replaced a few years ago is that “it takes quite a while to recuperate and I don’t have ‘quite a while’.”
But appearances can indeed be deceptive because he is still working as hard as ever. Most days – every day at the moment – are devoted to creating one or other of his projects: 12 individual labels for Macallan whisky, each bottle containing a new, unique distillation; a poster in conjunction with Roger Daltrey for Teenage Cancer Trust – “a kind of Sgt Pepper crowd of all the people who’ve performed for it”; a portrait of Michael Eavis, of Glastonbury fame, for the National Portrait Gallery. Continue reading...
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