TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manuel Lisboa, Maria
AB  - 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.    This collection of essays brings together both unpublished and previously published work to make a significant contribution to scholarship about Paula Rego. It will also be of interest to scholars and students of contemporary painting, Portuguese and British feminist art, and the political and ideological aspects of the visual arts.
DO  - 10.11647/OBP.0178
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1005508
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135855416
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24602
KW  - Paula Rego
KW  - Portugual
KW  - artist
KW  - personal history
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24602/1/9781783747580.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24602/1/9781783747580.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32826
PB  - Open Book Publishers
PY  - 2019
TI  - Essays on Paula Rego : Smile When You Think about Hell
ER  - 
