这是一本令人惊叹的新书，讲述了保拉•里戈不平凡的一生，探讨了她的作品所根植的个人和社会政治背景。

本书揭示了这位艺术家广泛的参考资料，从连环画到历史绘画。书中有100多幅插图，包括拼贴画、油画、大型粉彩画、水墨画和铅笔画、蚀刻画和雕塑，包括20世纪50年代的早期作品，在这些作品中，雷戈首次探讨了个人和社会斗争，她在广受赞誉的《狗女和堕胎》（Dog Women and Abortion）系列中的大型单人粉彩画，以及她在2000年至10年代的层次丰富和舞台场景。

一系列的文章探讨了与艺术家的童年记忆和日常生活有关的主题，爱的体验和失去爱人的感觉。本书还涉及更广泛的社会政治问题，如对妇女身体的监控、堕胎合法化的斗争，以及反对独裁主义和战争的斗争，从葡萄牙的独裁统治到伊拉克战争。

A stunning new volume which tells the story of Paula Rego’s extraordinary life, exploring the personal and socio-political contexts in which her work is rooted.

Since the 1950s, Paula Rego has played a key role in redefining figurative art in the UK and internationally. An uncompromising artist of extraordinary imaginative power, she has revolutionised the way in which women are represented.

This stunning volume reveals the artist's broad range of references, from comic strips to history painting. Featuring over 100 illustrations, including collage, paintings, largescale pastels, ink and pencil drawings, etchings and sculpture, including early work from the 1950s in which Rego first explored personal as well as social struggle, her large pastels of single figures from the acclaimed Dog Women and Abortion series and her richly layered, staged scenes from the 2000-10s.

A range of texts explores themes relating to the artist's childhood memories and everyday life, the experience of love and the loss of the beloved. It also addresses broader socio-political issues, such as the policing of women's bodies, the struggle to legalise abortion, and the fight against authoritarianism and war, from the dictatorship in Portugal to the Iraq War.

The book reflects the richness of Rego's work, from the socio-political context to the biographical, from her many literary references to her vast knowledge and referencing of key historical paintings from the Western tradition.