Portuguese Artists in London: Shaping Identities in Post-War Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367244743 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 142 str.

Leonor de Oliveira

Opis

This book centres on four Portuguese artists’ journeys between Portugal and Britain and aims at rethinking the cultural and artistic interactions in the post-war Europe, the shaping of new identities within a context of creative experimentalism and transnational dynamics and the artistic responses to political troubles.

Spis treści

Introduction: Britain and Portugal – Universalism and Modernity at the Crossroads of the Mid-Twentieth Century  1. Images of Resistance: Artistic Apprenticeship and Experimentalism at the Slade School  2. Expressions of Contemporaneity: Dealing with Dictatorship and Colonialism in the Post-War Period  3. Travelling Images: Exposing Identity on the International Stage  4. Collective Imagery: A New Iconography for New Generations  Conclusion