Essays on Paula Rego: Smile When You Think About Hell

by Maria Manuel Lisboa

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013293746
• ISBN13: 9781013293740
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 510 Pages
• Weight: 2.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"