Love and Authority in the Work of Paula Rego: Narrating the Family Romance

by Ruth Rosengarten

Book Overview

Rosengarten explores the narrative operations of Rego's work by mobilising both psychoanalytic theory and social history. She confronts, as case studies, three complex figure paintings from different moments in Rego's oeuvre: The Policeman's Daughter (1987), The Interrogator's Garden (2000), and The First Mass in Brazil (1993).

The content of the three specimen paintings links them to the political context of the Estado Novo, the fascist-inspired...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526106620
• ISBN13: 9781526106629
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.4"