Essays on Paula Rego: Smile When You Think About Hell
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- Synopsis
- In these powerful and stylishly written essays, Maria Manuel Lisboa dissects the work of Paula Rego, the Portuguese-born artist considered one of the greatest artists of modern times. Focusing primarily on Rego’s work since the 1980s, Lisboa explores the complex relationships between violence and nurturing, power and impotence, politics and the family that run through Rego’s art. Taking a historicist approach to the evolution of the artist’s work, Lisboa embeds the works within Rego’s personal history as well as Portugal’s (and indeed other nations’) stories, and reveals the interrelationship between political significance and the raw emotion that lies at the heart of Rego’s uncompromising iconographic style. Fundamental to Lisboa’s analysis is an understanding that apparent opposites – male and female, sacred and profane, aggression and submissiveness – often co-exist in Rego’s work in a way that is both disturbing and destabilising.
- Copyright:
- 2019
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 02/08/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Maria Manuel Lisboa
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English, Arabic
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.