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Essays on Paula Rego : smile when you think about hell
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 …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978183747580
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- 510 pages (xvi+494)
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- 759 Lis
Essays on paula rego : smile when you think about hell
Prologue: A Patriot for Me In the Prologue, Lisboa identifies the key themes permeating the book: love and reversals of love; negative aspects and interests of patriarchy; and the ways in which Paula Rego connects the personal and the political. Discussed is Rego’s perspective; her destabilization of expectations and assumptions; and a set of tensions in her life and work – between exter…
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- 9781783747603
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- xiii. :ill. ;512 p.
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- 759 MAR e
Essays on Paula Rego: smile when you think about hell
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 …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783747580
- Collation
- xv, 492 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- Call Number
- 759.421 LIS e
The end of the world : apocalypse and its aftermath in Western culture
This book is a tour de force, full of wonderful insights [...] Professor Lisboa is equally at ease when discussing a film like King Kong as when considering a fine point by Derrida, a dramatic passage from Beckett or a picture by Hieronymus Bosch. This is a timely book for the uncertain times in which we live. Its scholarly credentials are unquestionable, its erudition impressive, its analysis …
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- 9781906924522
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- xv, 194 p. : ill.
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- 809.93382 LIS t
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