paula rego

the complete graphic work

2003
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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (Nov 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0500093156
ISBN-13: 978-0500093153
Product Dimensions: 30.4 x 26.8 x 3.4 cm

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By T. G. Rosenthal. A fantastic book. I tend to think that her graphic work has been overshadowed by her paintings but just look at this book and you will see a magical, disquietening world - can't recommend it enough.

At last, a chance to see a few scans from this book before you buy. The low quality scans below will give you a flavour of this handy book. The book itself is a 100 times better.

The book is available from amazon.co.uk and a direct link is here.

Paula Rego - The Complete Graphic Work

Inside flap.

Many of the greatest artists since Durer and Rembrandt have used the print medium to explore some of their most important ideas. Paula Rego is in this tradition, giving full rein to her imagination in both etching and lithography, and using the media with exuberance to create work that is as disturbing, erotic and powerful as her paintings.

This sumptuously produced book, with reproductions in tritone and colour, is the first monograph to dealexclusively woth Rego's graphic work. It discusses and illustrates all her prints, including unpublished work - over 200 etchings and lithographs spanning half a century from 1954 to 2003.

Many of her prints are based on themes, as she says that one image triggers the idea for the next. Among these are Rego's Nursery Rhymes, which reveal a darkly humourous take on the difficulties of childhood, and provide a rich seam for her precocious gifts and individually characterized animals. The narrative layers and emotional nuances of her work are vividly shown in her Peter Pan series of 1992, and also in Pendle Witches 1996, for which she collaborated closely with the poet and writer Blake Morrison, who in turn was inspired by her 1996-98 series The Children's Crusade. The book concludes with her most recent portfolio of lithographs, based more or less loosely on Jane Eyre.

With 491 illustrations, 109 in colour, 382 in tritone.

This is a book I come back to time and again. The illustrations are of a sublime quality and the text both informs and keeps you interested in the subject matter.

The images are beautiful yet disturbing, harrowing and her soothing.

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