Paula Rego : power games / edited by Eva Reifert ; contributions by Catarina Alfaro [and twenty-one others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reifert, Eva, editor.

Alfaro, Catarina, contributor.

Jackson, Gerrit, translator.

Rego, Paula, artist.

Lewis, Tess, translator.

Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, issuing body, host institution.

Standardized Title:

Paula Rego (Hirmer Verlag GmbH). English.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Rego, Paula--Exhibitions.

Rego, Paula.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

231 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Power games

Place of Publication:

Munich : Hirmer Verlag GmbH ; Basel : Kunstmuseum Basel, [2024]

Language Note:

Translation from German of: Paula Rego : Machtspiele.

Summary:

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 favourite 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. With a contribution by Anne Weber and an excerpt of Annie Ernaux's "The Happening." Contributions by C. Alfaro, C. Binswanger, C. Brink, D. M. Cardoso, E. Crippa, A. Cvetkovich, A. Ernaux, E. Ferreira, D. Grisard, M. Keller, V. Marstaller, M. Meister-Notter, V. Miro, L. de Oliveira, J. Rauser, E. Reifert, N. Scherrer, F. Schutzbach, J. Warzecha, A. Weber, N. Willing, A. Zimmermann.

Contents:

Foreword / Elena Filipovic

Acknowledgments

"My Favorite Themes Are Power Games and Hierarchies" / Eva Reifert

At Home in the Studio: The Intersecting Worlds of Paula Rego / Leonor De Oliveria

Paula Rego's Play of Mimesis / Andrea Zimmermann

Self-Portraits / Catarina Alfaro

Family Constellations / Elena Crippa

State Violence / Dulce Maria Cardoso

Battle Of The Sexes / Christa Binswanger

Heroines / Cornelia Brink, Vera Marstaller

Roleplay / Dominique Grisard

Unconscious / Marianne Meister-Notter

Defiance / Franziska Schutzbach

Happening (excerpt) / Annie Ernaux

Fighting Spirit / Ann Cvetkovich

Angel / Anne Weber

Chronology / Jasper Warzecha

Works in the Exhibition

Author Biographies

Colophon.

Notes:

In colophon: This catalog has been published to accompany the exhibition Paula Rego, Power Games, Kunstmuseum Basel, September 28, 2024 - February 2, 2025.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Kunstmuseum Basel, September 28, 2024 - February 2, 2025.

ISBN:

3777443123

9783777443126

OCLC:

1425076426

Publisher Number:

CIPO000141675