Paula Rego's Map of Memory(English, Hardcover, Lisboa Maria Manuel)

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Paula Rego's Map of Memory(English, Hardcover, Lisboa Maria Manuel) is written by Lisboa Maria Manuel and published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754607208 (ISBN 10) and 9780754607205 (ISBN 13).

The artist Paula Rego was born in Portugal but has lived in Britain since 1951. In this well-illustrated book, Maria Manuel Lisboa explores the background behind Rego's decision to leave the land of her birth and, in doing so, provides fascinating insights into Rego's persistent portrayal of uneasy and predatory relations between men and women. Looking back over the national, religious and sexual politics of Portugal during Rego's childhood under the shadow of the Salazar dictatorship and subsequently, Lisboa locates the origins of the artist's preoccupation with power and powerlessness, violence and abuse within the political and ideological status quo of Portugal, past and present. Lisboa's clear and thoughtful analysis offers an ambitious contribution to the study of patriarchy, Catholicism and Fascism and their expression in the work of this artist.