Paula Rego

Name: Paula Rego
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9780500021378
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The Art of Story

By Deryn Rees-Jones

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Paula Rego explores the remarkable artistic journey of Paula Rego, whose work is celebrated for its powerful storytelling and unique aesthetic. Author Deryn Rees-Jones delves into Rego's personal and creative evolution over sixty years, examining how her art draws upon literary, folk, and political influences. The book highlights Rego's engagement with the Old Masters, folktales from her native Portugal, and contemporary issues such as feminism, offering a layered understanding of her compelling paintings.
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Format: Hardback

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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, feminist perspectives in art, cultural storytelling, and those who appreciate in-depth artist monographs with a focus on narrative and political context.

This major monograph on the life and work of artist Paula Rego surveys a career that spans six decades, combining literary and artistic perspectives.

"Paula Rego is an outstanding artist. She deserves an outstanding book. And now she has one." --Waldemar Januszczak, Art Critic, The Sunday Times

The most up-to-date monograph on Paula Rego, one of the most important figurative artists of her generation

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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, emphasising 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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'A splendidly illustrated study of a great living artist' – Spectator. 'The year’s finest monograph about a female artist... Rhys Jones delicately unpacks their mysteries' – Hyperallergic. 'Filled with highlights from her theatrical takes on Portuguese folk tales through to her landmark responses on women's rights' – Artists & Illustrators. 'A remarkable contribution... a rich narrative combining overview and in-depth analysis... an important monograph' – Woman's Art Journal.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500021378

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 October 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Contributors:

Foreword by Marina Warner

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 308.0mm

Weight: 3040g

Pages: 376

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Arts & Culture Deryn Rees-Jones Non-Fiction

About the Author

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. Marina Warner’s study of the Arabian Nights, Stranger Magic (2011) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2013; in 2015 she was awarded the Holberg Prize in the Arts and Humanities and was made DBE. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, a Fellow of the British Academy and President of the Royal Society of Literature.