Paula Rego

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.

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Deryn Rees-Jones is a writer and academic, whose poetry has received numerous critical accolades, including shortlisting for the T. S. Eliot and Roland Matthias Prizes. A professor at the University of Liverpool, she co-directs the university s Centre for New and International Writing. She is editor of the Pavilion Poetry series, and a co-editor of the journal Women: A Cultural Review.

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An up-to-date monograph on figurative artist Paula Rego featuring 350 reproductions of work spanning Rego's career.

Contenu
Foreword by Marina Warner • 1. Configurations (19511980) • 2. Monkeys, Rabbits,
Girls and Dogs (19811987) • 3. The Story and the Secret (19871994) • 4. Animations
(19951998) • 5. Theatres of Memory (19992005) • 6. Metamorphosis (20062018)