Paula Rego: The Complete Graphic Work FROM THE PUBLISHER
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 book, with reproductions in tritone and colour, is the first mongraph to deal exclusively with 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 It discusses and illustrates all her prints, including unpublished work - over 200 etchings and lithographs spanning half a century from 1954 to 2003.
T.G. Rosenthal, a long-time supporter of Rego's work, discusses the background to each series, and comments on each print. He also quotes extensively from his and others' conversations with the artist, underlining Rego's subversive humour and her strongly feminist outlook. A fully illustrated catalogue raisonne by Hannah Begbie, a description of Rego's etching techniques by the artist and printmaker Paul Coldwell, a list of exhibitions, a chronology and a bibliography make this a unique source of information on a major aspect of this leading artist's work.
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
A London-based painter and printmaker, Rego is a storyteller whose darkly comic narratives occur in a domestic world marked by sexual temptation, power plays, and barely disguised fury. Leading British art critic Rosenthal analyzes all the graphic work Rego produced from 1954 to 2003, cogently interpreting her graphic series and one-off works and placing them in an art historical context. The 491 illustrations in the accompanying catalogue raisonn are beautifully reproduced directly from original etchings and lithographs. Paul Coldwell, the printer with whom Rego collaborates, describes the artist's step-by-step creative process. Also included are an exhibition list and chronology. This book does a wonderful job of providing a general overview of Rego's graphic work, yet because it is studied in isolation, the links between her printmaking and her painting are left unexplored. This focused text will be a useful complement to Fiona Bradley's recent Paula Rego or John McEwen's authoritative 1997 monograph of the same title. Recommended for all art libraries and specialized public libraries.-Katherine C. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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