Paula Rego: Power Games

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The female protagonists of the Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego either come from real life or derive from the world's great legends, fairy tales, and myths. As complicated heroines of our time they have endured illegal abortions or fight against the limitations of traditional gender roles instead of dragons.

"My favorite themes are power games and hierarchies". Rego's oeuvre is a tour de force of creativity. Endlessly versatile and inexhaustible, it is deeply rooted in pictorial worlds and stories from both past and present. This volume approaches the remarkable wealth of Rego's multi-faceted universe through a range of different perspectives and tells of the power of history and emotions, women's rights and invisible structures of domination.

Author Bio

Eva Reifert (b. in Mainz) has been the Curator of 19th-Century and Modern Art at Kunstmuseum Basel since 2016.

With contributions from: Catarina Alfaro, Christa Binswanger, Cornelia Brink, Dulce Maria Cardoso, Elena Crippa, Ann Cvetkovich, Annie Ernaux, Emlia Ferreira, Dominique Grisard, Marion Keller, Vera Marstaller, Marianne Meister-Notter, Victoria Miro, Leonor de Oliveira, Judith Rauser, Eva Reifert, Noemi Scherrer, Franziska Schutzbach, Jasper Warzecha, Anne Weber, Nick Willing, Andrea Zimmermann and includes an excerpt from Annie Ernaux' The Happening.