TY - BOOK ID - 85492045 TI - Paula Rego : the art of story AU - Rees-Jones, Deryn AU - Warner, Marina AU - Rego, Paula PY - 2019 SN - 9780500021378 0500021376 PB - London ; New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, DB - UniCat KW - ART / European. KW - Art and Design. KW - Women painters. KW - Painting, Portuguese. KW - Grafik KW - Malerei KW - Zeichnung KW - Art and Design. KW - Rego, Paula KW - Rego, Paula. KW - Rego, Paula KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - 1900-1999 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85492045 AB - "A prolific painter and printmaker, Paula Rego is an artist of astonishing power with a unique and unforgettable aesthetic. Capturing the extraordinary aspects of Rego's work, author Deryn Rees-Jones places autobiographical narratives alongside stories suggested by Rego's pictures. She explores their rich and textured layering of references to the old masters, fiction, fairytales, poems, the folk traditions of Rego's native Portugal, politics, feminism, and more. The result is a highly original work that addresses urgent and topical questions on gender, subject and object, and self and other. Taking its cues from the artist, this fascinating study invites us to reflect on the complexities of storytelling. Rooted in close interpretation of the artworks, we see how Rego's art intersects with the work of other women artists, such as Cindy Sherman and Louise Bourgeois, as well as writers, from Charlotte Bronte and Angela Carter to Franz Kafka and Martin McDonagh. A definitive volume on the artist's oeuvre, Paula Rego continues to raise questions, elevating it beyond a retrospective to something both provocative and authoritative"--Publisher's description. 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. ER -