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dc.contributor.authorManuel Lisboa, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-03 11:13:11
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T10:03:57Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T10:03:57Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier1005508
dc.identifierOCN: 1135855416en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24602
dc.description.abstractIn 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 This collection of essays brings together both unpublished and previously published work to make a significant contribution to scholarship about Paula Rego.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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFC Paintings and paintingen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls::JBSF11 Feminism and feminist theoryen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations::JPSL Geopoliticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VF Family and health::VFV Relationships and families: advice and issues::VFVX Intergenerational relationships: advice and issuesen_US
dc.subject.otherPaula Rego
dc.subject.otherPortugual
dc.subject.otherartist
dc.subject.otherpersonal history
dc.titleEssays on Paula Rego
dc.title.alternativeSmile When You Think about Hell
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.11647/OBP.0178
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b
oapen.collectionScholarLed
oapen.pages510
oapen.identifier.ocn1135855416


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