Paula Rego JANE EYRE Hardcover Bronte Enitharmon Cavalo Ferro Artist Lithographs

Paula Rego book - JANE EYRE Hardcover Good/very good pre-owned condition. Cover has minor shelf wear. Interior pages are all clean and crisp. Enitharmon Editions London in association wih Cavalo De Ferro Editores Lisbon Introduced by Marina Warner 2003 / 2004 Printed in Italy Contains lithographs and excepts of Jane Eyre text Paula Rego has long had a fascination with Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’s The Wide Sargasso Sea. In 2002 this culminated in the production of twenty-five lithographs, reproduced here in an artist’s book, along with excerpts from the novel. Marina Warner, in her eloquent and perceptive introduction, examines why Jane Eyre should have inspired Rego’s new work: Charlotte Brontë and Paula Rego share an imaginative ardor that abolishes the veil between what takes place in fact or in fantasy. As storytellers, they really are kith and kin: Rego reproduces the psychological drama in the book through subjective distortions of scale, cruel expressiveness of gesture and frown, and disturbingly stark contrasts of light and welling shadows. Again and again in the story, Jane Eyre is closeted in a small, confined space, sometimes most terribly against her will, sometimes secluded of her own accord: in an early piece of powerful scene-setting, she is locked in the dark chamber where John Reed died and is so terrified by the dead man’s presence that she has a fit. This is only the first of a sequence of experiences when, for better or worse, imag