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Paula Rego : the art of story

Title
Paula Rego : the art of story / Deryn Rees-Jones ; foreword by Marina Warner.
Author
Rees-Jones, Deryn
Publication
London : Thames & Hudson, [2019]

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Additional Authors
  • Rego, Paula.
  • Warner, Marina, 1946-
Description
376 pages : illustrations; 31 cm
Summary
Paula Rego is an artist of astonishing power with a unique and unforgettable aesthetic. Taking its cues from the artist, this fascinating study invites us to reflect on the complexities of storytelling on which Rego's work draws, emphasizing both the stories the pictures tell, and how it is that they are told. Deryn Rees-Jones sets interpretations of the pictures in the context of Rego's personal and artistic development across sixty years. We see how Rego's art intersects with the work of both the literary and the visual, and come to understand her rich and textured layering of reference: her use of the Old Masters; fiction, fairy tales and poems; the folk traditions of Rego's native Portugal; and her wider engagement with politics, feminism and more. The result is a highly original work that addresses urgent and topical questions of gender, subject and object, self and other.
Subject
  • Rego, Paula > Criticism and interpretation
  • Rego, Paula
  • Painting, Portuguese > 20th century
  • ART / European
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-363) and index.
ISBN
  • 9780500021378
  • 0500021376
OCLC
  • on1112380089
  • SCSB-9593536
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library