Screen LibraryLes contes cruels de Paula Rego /
"The only female artist in the London Group, Paula Rego set herself apart with her strongly figurative, literary, incisive and singular work. Born in Lisbon in 1935, Paula Rego left Portugal and Salazar's oppressive dictatorship as an adolescent to study in London where she has now lived f...
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Flammarion : Museé d'Orsay,
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| Publisher Address: | Paris : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | French |
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"The only female artist in the London Group, Paula Rego set herself apart with her strongly figurative, literary, incisive and singular work. Born in Lisbon in 1935, Paula Rego left Portugal and Salazar's oppressive dictatorship as an adolescent to study in London where she has now lived for over fifty years. Trained at the Slade School of Arts, she rubbed shoulders with the likes of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, and David Hockney. As a painter, she produces large pastel polyptychs with exceptional flair. Obsessed by a certain literature and cultural vision of the 19th century, both realistic and imaginary, like her fellow countryman and film director Manoel de Oliveira, Paula Rego intertwines these references (Jane Eyre, Peter Pan, Daumier, Goya, Lewis Carroll, Hogarth, Ensor, Degas, etc.) with strongly autobiographical elements and elements of real life, that of the contemporary world and its social and political issues, with a contemporary twist. Dark narratives, her paintings seem to be taken from a cruel tale and evoke women's issues in strange scenes, going against social codes"--Gallery website |
| Item Description: | Catalog of an exhibition held at Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France, October 17, 2018 - January 14, 2019. Organized by Musée d'Orsay and Musée de l'Orangerie. |
| Carrier Form: | 204 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9782081467316 2081467313 9782354332693 2354332696 |
| Index Number: | N7133 |
| CLC: | J231(561)-28 |
| Call Number: | WF/J231(561)-28/C761 |
| Contents: |
Les contes cruels de Paula Rego / Le chat et ses neuf vies / Paula Rego. L'épée et l'éponge / La peinture comme théâtre de la mémoire / Le XIXe siècle disparate et d'un "mauvais goût magnifique" de Paula Rego / Présumée innocente. L'enfance vue par Paula Rego / Catalogue / Jeux -- Les petites filles -- Nursery rhymes -- Nursery Rhymes -- Comptines et rondes -- The Dance -- Punitions et réprimandes -- The Maids -- The Policeman's Daughter et The Family -- Contes et fantaisies -- Peter Pan -- Pinocchio -- War -- Animaux et animalité -- Dog Women -- Dancing Ostriches -- Héroïnes -- Cycles et figures -- The Pillowman Tsiiptych -- The Fisherman Triptych -- Scarecrow and the Pig -- Épilogue -- Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu. |