Paula Rego - obedience and defiance
2019
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A major publication on the radical and political work of one of Britain's most celebrated living figurative artists. Born in Lisbon in 1935, Dame Paula Rego DBE left Portugal as a teenager to study in London, which has been her principal home for more than sixty years. She is celebrated for bold and intense paintings, drawings and prints that intertwine the private and the public, the intimate and the political, combining autobiographical elements with stories from literature, folklore and mythology, references to earlier art, and observations on the contemporary world. She uses arresting imagery and dark symbolism to create unsettling narrative tableaux that challenge the established order and unpick social and sexual codes embodied by family, religion and the state.
Main title:
Paula Rego - obedience and defiance / edited by Anthony Spira and Catherine Lampert ; with texts by Catherine Lampert, Kate Zambreno.
Author:
Rego, PaulaSpira, Anthony, editorLampert, Catherine, author, editorZambreno, Kate, authorMilton Keynes Gallery, host institutionScottish National Gallery of Modern Art, host institutionIrish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland), host institution
Imprint:
London : Art/Books, 2019.
Collation:
174 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 29 cm
Notes:
Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 15th June-22nd September 2019 ; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 23rd November 2019-19th April 2020 ; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 25th May-1st November 2020.Includes bibliographical references.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781908970480 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
759.69759.96 REG
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
1099410