IHA Editions

Aurélia de Souza Catalogue Raisonné

2024-07-31T14:23:12+00:00

The survey and study of Aurélia de Souza's complete work was proposed by Professor Raquel Henriques da Silva to the Management of the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, in 2018, with the aim of its publication on the occasion of the centenary of the artist's death, which took place in 2022. From the beginning, IHA was associated with this project, through the hiring and payment, as a researcher, of Elena Komissarova, current doctoral candidate at IHA (GI MuSt).

Comprising 472 works, including some photographs by Aurélia de Souza, the catalog raisonne by Aurélia de Souza demonstrates the wealth and enormous production of the painter, the result of a long work of identification, photography and cataloguing, developed over the last three years by a team composed of Conservator Ana Paula Machado (MNSR), Conservadora-Restauradora Maria Aguiar (CITAR), and by Art Historians Raquel Henriques da Silva and Elena Komissarova (IHA), who assume the scientific coordination of this volume.

Prompting Participation in the Arts

2024-09-23T14:26:44+00:00

'Dentes de Leão' was a participatory art project that invested in youngsters from Sardoal, Évora and Lisboa and in young artists from the districts of Santarém and Évora and from Iceland. Between January of 2022 and April of 2023, the project comprised weekly encounters of youngsters, artistic residencies and labs, a participatory arts course and public presentations in Évora, Sardoal and Lisbon. A collaboration with IHA-NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST and ICNOVA also resulted in an international conference and in this publication.

In the first volume of Prompting Participation in the Arts, critical thoughts from every participant in the Dentes de Leão project are made visible. It also features images and texts on the artistic creations developed throughout the entire project. The second volume features original texts by reference authors in the area covered by Dentes de Leão: the crossing of participation and the arts.

"Pinto para os Tempos a imagem de hum Rey"

2024-08-21T17:28:14+00:00

The Fundação da Casa de Bragança, continuing in its mission to disseminate its precious cultural and historical treasures,
now offers interested members of the public a new and easier way of publishing, in digital format, entitled “Pinto para os tempos a imagem de hum Rey”, contributions to the study of the painting by José de Avelar Rebelo, author of the Portrait of King João IV. Starting from a portrait of the restoring king, João IV, and the painter who painted it, José de Avelar Rebelo, Professor Susana Varela Flor traces the artist's career, with careful use of archival sources, which bring to light a wealth of unpublished information.
At the same time, and in the context of conservation and restoration, work was carried out to analyze the materiality of the portrait of King João IV, with the contribution of various scientists, such as Professors António Candeias and Sara Valadas, as well as Catarina Miguel, Mathilda Coutinho, Miriam Pressato, Silvia Bottura-Scardina and Ana Margarida Cardoso. This work involved a serious interdisciplinary effort by the Hércules Laboratory at the University of Évora, with the scientific coordination of Professors Susana Varela Flor, Sara Valadas and António Candeias, and by the team from the Casa de Bragança Library Museum, who deserve a mention of appreciation for their commitment and dedication.

Aware of the importance of sustained knowledge and the need to practice this interdisciplinarity, the Bragança House Foundation cultivates relationships with academic institutions and researchers from multiple areas and disciplines, especially with the Hercules Laboratory, facilitated by geographical proximity, the scope of the objects of study, the universality and excellence of the results and strengthened by the human bonds created and consolidated.
May this publication inspire new studies and research aimed at promoting knowledge, which is one of the cornerstones of the Foundation's work in fulfilling its mission to care for the Cultural Heritage of the House of Bragança.
of Bragança.

Portrait Talks

2024-07-30T13:53:48+00:00

Based on the monthly cycle of online ‘conversations’ on Portrait that took place throughout 2021, this ebook brings together conferences given by a group of researchers and specialists, national and international, around the subject of portrait representation in various media , from the most traditional to the most emerging, (re)thinking ideas and practices associated with the Portrait genre, as well as its multiple philosophical, social, cultural and/or political implications. Presenting different approaches from the fields of visual arts and literary arts, according to the scientific background and the areas of work of the guest speakers, this publication — which deliberately keeps a digital record of the conversations that gave rise to it — aims at both challenge borders and commonplaces about genological territories related to the Portrait category and question them from a less academically formatted and restrictive perspective, providing the Portuguese and international scientific community, and all readers interested in this subject, with new critical approaches and methodologies in a transdisciplinary and transnational perspective.

Paula Rego and Salette Tavares: Mapping Feminine Creativity in thr 70s

2024-09-02T13:17:09+00:00

In addition to being friends in their private lives, Paula Rego and Salette Tavares were also close colleagues in the art world, as evidenced by the letters that they exchanged and the texts that were written by the latter about Rego’s work. This encounter is framed specifically in the decade of the 1970s, which in the Portuguese context corresponds to a complex period of political transformation that was marked by the Revolution of 25 April 1974, which put an end to almost fifty years of dictatorship. In that period and bearing in mind the visibility and recognition of Paula Rego’s work, and Salette Tavares’s activity as an art critic and as president of the Portuguese Section of the International Association of Art Critics, the focal figures of this exhibition were agents in the cultural and artistic redefinition of the country. Organised as part of the IHA seed-project Mapping feminine creativity, 1974-1979, the exhibition and its catalogue reveal how both artist and art critic created a space of visibility for Portuguese women that today enables their inclusion in the narrative and reflections on the historic moment of transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Ernesto de Sousa 1921-2021

2024-09-23T15:07:00+00:00

The centenary of Ernesto de Sousa’s birth was marked on 18 April 2021. From the 1940s until his death on 6 October 1988, he played a fundamental role in the arts in Portugal and impacted generations of artists working after the 25^th April Revolution of 1974. To commemorate this centenary, the Art Library of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Art History Institute of NOVA FCSH organized the Centenary Colloquium of Ernesto de Sousa on 2 June 2021. The book Ernesto de Sousa 1921-2021: A conscious creation of situations / A conscious situation of creations follows on from that encounter, featuring six new peer-reviewed studies about Ernesto de Sousa, statements and revisitations from several authors, the transcript of a round-table with artists and curators on his role in the Portuguese visual arts, contributions from artists conceived specifically for this book, as well as a previously unreleased text by Ernesto de Sousa. Written in three languages, Portuguese, Spanish and English, this book brings together artists, critics, curators and researchers, in a polyphonic discussion about Ernesto de Sousa. This book is available on open access and, with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, a limited edition of 150 copies will also be printed.

Dictionary

2024-08-23T19:23:37+00:00

The Dictionary Who's Who in Portuguese Museology is an unprecedented editorial project integrated into the Research Group Museum Studies (MuSt), which has the support of the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage. Its fundamental objective was to provide a comprehensive vision, precise knowledge and an updated appreciation of the personalities associated with Portuguese Museology, who carried out their activity between the 1960th century and the XNUMXs, and working in different scientific typologies (Art, Science, Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Ethnology). It also aims to contribute to a greater understanding of the History of Museums and Museology. Framed in the IHA typology seed-projects (micro-projects), one of IHA's strategic structural lines, focuses on the advantages of publishing in open access online format. The edition that is now published, revised and expanded, has 96 new biographical entries, with the selection of authors arbitrated by a Scientific Committee created for this purpose, proving, once again, the relevance of this approach centered on the biographical genre, at the same time highlight the role played by a group of regional and local individuals, some of them unknown or devalued and areas that, in general, remain insufficiently studied, making this Dictionary a work of national and international reference in this area of studies.

Autores y textos museológicos en español y portugués

2024-08-23T14:26:25+00:00

Texts:
Esther Alsina
Lea Blezer
Almudena Caso
Duarte Manuel Freitas
Manuela García Lirio
Alejandra Gómez
María Luisa Grau Tello
Jesús Pedro Lorente
Ana Cristina Martins
Álvaro Notario
Inmaculada Real López
Alma Rodríguez
Ariadna Ruiz
Sofía Sánchez Giménez
Oriol Vaz
Ivan Vaz Romero-Trueba
Luis Walias

Art, Museums & Digital Cultures

2024-08-23T15:19:17+00:00

Following the International Conference on Art, Museums and Digital Cultures (April 2021), this e-book seeks to extend the discussion on the concept of change that is usually associated with the relationship between culture and technology.

Through the contributions of 32 authors from 12 countries, the book not only questions how digital media have inspired new artistic and curatorial practices, but also how, conversely, critical and creative proposals in the fields of art and museums have opened up alternative paths to technological development. Acknowledging the different approaches to the topic, ranging from retrospective readings to the analysis of recent issues and projects, the book is divided into seven sections and a visual essay, highlighting collaborative territories and the crossovers between different areas of scientific knowledge.

Available in open access, this publication is the result of a collaborative project promoted by the Institute of Art History of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University of Lisbon and maat – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology.

Partner institution: Instituto Superior Técnico. Sponsor: Millennium bcp Foundation. Media partner: Umbigo magazine.

Estratégias de Exposição - História e Práticas Recentes

2024-08-29T16:49:41+00:00

Texts of the papers presented at the IV IBERIAN FORUM ON MUSEOLOGICAL STUDIES, held by videoconference, December 10, 2020.

Os Museus e a(s) Sociedade(s): Teorias, contextos, histórias, experiências, desafios

2024-08-29T18:10:14+00:00

Texts of the papers presented at the II Museology Research Forum, held in Lisbon on December 13 and 14, 2018.

ECO (FROM IDEA TO WORK OF ART)

2024-09-02T13:37:33+00:00

ECO (FROM IDEA TO ARTWORK) is the end-of-course exhibition project developed by the collective of curators from the third edition of the Postgraduate Programme in Curatorship at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH/NOVA 2017/2018).
University (FCSH/NOVA 2017/2018). The exhibition was held at the Liminare Gallery in the Lumiar Parish Council, between 3 June and 8 September 2018.

Essays (On the table). From the collection of the Museum of Lisbon and the Bordalo Pinheiro Museum

2024-09-02T13:56:22+00:00

The exhibition TESTS (ON THE TABLE): From the collection of the Museum Museum and the Bordalo Pinheiro Museum is the culmination of the work developed over the course of the year by the collective of curators of the second edition of the Postgraduate Programme in Art Curatorship at the Faculty of Social of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon (FCSH/NOVA 2016/2017). The exhibition project was part of the official programme of Galeria Quadrum | Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, and ran from 20 July to 1 October of 2017. The curatorial work centred on the collections of the Museum of Museum and the Bordalo Pinheiro Museum, with the aim of giving these collections a common life by to these collections, bringing together different experiences of reflection, sharing and debate, through a programme of performative, educational and discursive activities that took place throughout the exhibition. As part of the exhibition's parallel programme ENSAIOS (ON THE MESA), various activities open to the whole community were organised: guided tours guided tours, ateliers, workshops and informal meetings, such as the Marathon, which took place on 23 and 24 September at the Quadrum Gallery, which enriched the reflection and debate on the exhibition, the collection and the city with the participation of thirty guests.

Nationality, Identity, Mobility

2024-09-23T14:20:20+00:00

This publication results from the papers presented in the annual meeting of the research group in Museum Studies of IHA in 2015, November 26 and 27, at Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis and Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto.
Lucy Steeds gave the keynote speech, the meeting was organized by an executive committee with Lúcia Almeida Matos, Lígia Afonso, Ughetta Molin Fop and Sofia Ponte and had scientific supervision of Lúcia Almeida Matos, Raquel Henriques da Silva e Susana Martins.

The altarpiece in Ibero-America

2024-08-29T18:46:37+00:00

When the 'Medieval and Early Modern Art Studies' research group at the Art History Institute of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa established “Retable” as the central theme of its international meeting, it sought to recover the path of internationalization of Portuguese art history and the dissemination of research carried out in our country. Of the various subjects that could be worked on in a broad way in the context of a scientific meeting, the group chose altarpiece art, its typology, functions and iconographies as the overarching topic for 2015. The meeting, which became known as the “1st Art History Symposium”, decided to limit the discussion of the topic to Ibero-America, without prejudice to inviting other geographical areas that were equally relevant to the study of the subject. It was precisely some of the papers presented during the Symposium, all of them carefully selected by the Scientific Committee set up for the purpose, that served as the basis for the texts now published. The choice of three strands of analysis - form, function and iconography - was the motto for the art-historical approach to retabulistics in the vast Ibero-American territory and has been translated into the book presented below. In it, the reader will be able to find a wide-ranging reflection on the artists and their workshops, capable of designing small or large-scale altarpiece “machines”; the construction and definition of the profile of the patrons and agents of the artistic market in the execution of these works; the identification and analysis of the material dimension of the altarpieces; the multifaceted readings of their complex iconographic and ornamental programs. All the texts now published are subdivided into four distinct parts: The Ibero-American altarpiece: identities, transfers and assimilations; The altarpiece and space: drawing, architecture, painting and sculpture; The altarpiece and iconography: interpretation, meaning and function; The altarpiece heritage: conservation, restoration, defense and enhancement, the authors have sought to highlight the plastic and symbolic importance of the countless examples analyzed, emphasizing, whenever possible, the indigenous specificities and the artistic interactions established with exogenous contributions. The reading of this digital volume, which covers the modern period (between the 16th and 18th centuries), reveals a common idea: the cross-cutting nature of the “altarpiece” theme. Regardless of its form, function or iconography, it repeats models, (re)invents solutions and sometimes transgresses the norm, thus demonstrating that it doesn't matter where it is located or the specific place it is intended for, but that it always assumes a timeless character in the History of Art.

Proceedings of the Portugal - Galicia Meeting, Roman Mosaics

2024-08-30T17:24:17+00:00

Proceedings of the Portugal - Galicia Meeting on “Roman Mosaics - Fragments of Culture near the Atlantic”, held on July 6 and 7, 2013 at the Museum of the Roman Villa of Rabaçal - Municipality of Penela, Beira Litoral, D. Diogo Sousa Museum - Regional Directorate of Culture of the North, and the Provincial Museum of Lugo - Galicia. The book was coordinated by Miguel Pessoa, with the collaboration of numerous researchers in the field.

Southern Modernisms

2024-08-30T17:51:04+00:00

The book now being published results from a research project entitled Southern Modernisms that ran from March 2014 to May 2015 with FCT funding. The aim of the project was to explore the possibility of constructing a more inclusive, plural notion of modernism through the revision of Modernism’s prevailing definition – its stylistic focus, its formalist and anti-representative bias, as well as its autonomic assumptions, or, as far as architecture is concerned, its functionalist credo. This critical undertaking was grounded on the hypothesis that southern European modernisms featured a strong entrenchment in popular culture (folk art and vernacular architecture), and that this characteristic could be understood as anticipating some of the premises of, what would later become known as, critical regionalismo. (...)

Southern Modernisms

2024-08-30T11:32:40+00:00

The hegemonic definition of Modernism has been subjected to an intense critical revision process that began several decades ago. This process has contributed to the significant broadening of the modernist canon by challenging its primal essentialist assumptions and formalist interpretations in the fields of both the visual arts and architecture. This conference aims to further expand this revision, as it seeks to discuss the notion of “Southern Modernisms” by considering the hypothesis that regional appropriations, both in Southern Europe and the Southern hemisphere, entailed important critical stances that have remained unseen or poorly explored by art and architectural historians. In association with the Southern Modernisms research project (FCT – EXPL/CPC-HAT/0191/2013), we want to consider the entrenchment of southern modernisms in popular culture (folk art and vernacular architecture) as anticipating some of the premises of what would later become known as critical regionalism. It is therefore our purpose to explore a research path that runs parallel to key claims on modernism’s intertwinement with bourgeois society and mass culture, by questioning the idea that an aesthetically significant regionalism – one that resists to the colonization of international styles and is supported by critical awareness – occurred only in the field of architecture, and can only be represented as a postmodernist turn.

Uncertain Spaces

2024-08-30T15:03:37+00:00

Contains papers presented at the International Conference “Uncertain Spaces: Virtual Configurations in Contemporary Art and Museums”, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), October 31 - November 1, 2014) by: Helena Barranha and Susana S. Martins - Introduction: Art, Museums and Uncertainty (pp.1-12); Alexandra Bounia and Eleni Myrivili - Beyond the 'Virtual': Intangible Museographies and Collaborative Museum Experiences (pp.15-32); Annet Dekker - Curating in Progress. Moving Between Objects and Processes (pp.33-54); Giselle Beiguelman - Corrupted Memories. The aesthetics of digital ruins and the museum of the unfinished (pp.55-82); Andrew Vaas Brooks - The Planetary Datalinks (pp.85-110); Sören Meschede - Curators' Network: Creating a Promotional Database for Contemporary Visual Arts (pp.11-130 ); Stefanie Kogler - Divergent Histories and Digital Archives of Latin American and Latino Art in the United States - Old Problems in New Digital Formats (pp.131-156); Luise Reitstätter and Florian Bettel - Right to the City! Right to the Museum!(pp.159-182); Roberto Terracciano - On Geo-poetic systems: virtual interventions inside and outside the museum space (pp.183-210); and, Catarina Carneiro de Sousa and Luís Eustáquio - Art Practice in Collaborative Virtual Environments (pp.211-240).

Museums without a place

2024-08-30T11:57:09+00:00

Contains articles by: Helena Barranha - Introduction: manifestos for a museum without a place (pp.3-8); Natalie Bookchin and Alexei Shulgin - Introduction to net.art (1994-1999) [1999] (pp.11-18); Andreas Broegger - Net Art, web art, online art, net.art? [2000] (pp.19-24); Josephine Berry - Human, too Posthuman? Net Art and its critics [2000] (pp.25-33); Jon Ippolito - Ten myths about Internet Art [2002] (pp.34-44); Manuel Castells - Museums in the information age: cultural connectors of time and space [2001] (pp.47-62 ); Yehuda Kalay and John Marx - Architecture and the Internet: designing places in cyberspace [2005] (pp.63-87); Erkki Huhtamo - At (or beyond) the fingertips: contemporary art, exhibition practices and tactility [2008] (pp.88-102); Domenico Quaranta - Lost in translation. Or bringing Net Art elsewhere - sorry, context [2008] (pp.103-120); Marisa Olson - Post-Internet: Art after the Internet [2011] (pp.123-136); Fred Forest - A arte cosa mentale. From the visible to the invisible and from reality to a... different. [2012] (pp.137-141); Hito Steyerl - Too much world: is the Internet dead? [2012] (pp.142-158); Excerpts from interviews with artists, curators and researchers conducted as part of the unplace project (pp.159-196).

The manor house in Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro

2024-09-02T11:47:43+00:00

Book coordinated by Isabel Mendonça, Hélder Carita and Marize Malta. It brings together the papers presented at the Portuguese-Brazilian colloquium ‘The manor house in Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro (17th, 18th and 19th centuries). Anatomy of the interiors’, held from 4 to 6 June 2014 at the Museum of Decorative Arts of the Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva Foundation (Lisbon). It features articles by: Cátia Teles e Marques, Daniela Viggiani, Celina Borges Lemos,André Guilherme Dornelles Dangel, Miguel Metelo de Seixas, Isabel Soares de Albergaria, João Vieira Caldas, Maria João Pereira Coutinho, Hélder Carita, Ana Lúcia Vieira dos Santos, Mariana Pinto Ferreira and Tiago Molarinho Antunes, José Pessôa, José Marques Morgado Neto, Gustavo Reinaldo Alves do Carmo; Patrícia Thomé Junqueira Schettino, Celina Borges Lemos, Felipe Azevedo Bosi, Paulo Manta Pereira, Ana Paula Rebelo Correia, Sofia Braga, Ana Cristina da Costa Gomes and Isabel Murta Pina, Ana Pessoa, Isabel Mayer Godinho Mendonça, Isabel Sanson Portella, Alexandre Mascarenhas, Cristina Rozisky, Fábio Galli, Miguel Leal, Rosa Arraes, Maria João Ferreira, and Marize Malta.

Ephemeral Art and Conservation

2024-08-30T16:11:31+00:00

The book brings together the papers presented at the meeting “Ephemeral art and conservation: the paradigm of contemporary art and ethnographic goods”, held from November 6 to 7 at the Museu do Oriente (Lisbon).