The bold, distinctive style of Paula Rego’s paintings has acquired for her not only an ever-increasing critical reputation but also an unusually large and enthusiastic following. Her be-ribboned little-girl heroines and fairy-tale characters seem firmly rooted in childhood, yet the innocence of this art is darkened by the underlying themes of power, domination and rebellion, sexuality and gender, that run through her work. Here Rego has turned to the nursery rhyme as a source for her imagery. It is a genre that perfectly complements her art; full of double meanings, rhymes are written from a child’s perspective but are open to adult interpretation. Twenty-six well-known nursery rhymes are accompanied by a series of etchings which she has executed spontaneously as a child might, drawing directly on the plate without preparatory planning. Following the traditions of earlier artists such as Beatrix Potter, she treats the fantastic realistically, dressing animals in human costume and using dream-like dislocations of scale. These are wonderfully comic and rich illustrations with a hint of the sinister, that turn classic nursery rhymes into colourful stories about folly and delusion, cruelty, convention and sex.
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Introduction by Marina Warner · Humpty Dumpty · Jack and Jill · Baa, baa, black sheep
See-saw, Margery Daw · Little Miss Muffet · Ride a cock-horse · Mary, Mary, quite contrary
Who killed Cock Robin? · Old Mother Hubbard · Hey diddle diddle · Rub-a-dub-dub · Three
blind mice · Mother Goose · Goosey, goosey gander · Ladybird, ladybird · Rock-a-bye, baby
Polly, put the kettle on · Old King Cole · How many miles to Babylon · Hickety, pickety
Sing a song of sixpence · A frog he would a wooing-go · The old woman who lived in a
shoe · Ring-a-ring o’ roses · There was a man of double deed · The grand old Duke of York
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