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Marcelo Expósito. Conversación com Manuel Borja-Villel (resenha do livro)

Wed, 20 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000

A partir do livro “Marcelo Expósito. Conversación con Manuel Borja-Villel” (Madrid: Ediciones Turpial., 2015) este texto defende a necessidade de um projecto comum, crítico e comprometido, para a cultura portuguesa. Entre resenha e ensaio, pretende contribuir para um pensamento político da cultura em Portugal. Texto publicado na Punkto.

Art and politics in the former 'Portuguese Colonial Empire.' The monument to Mouzinho de Albuquerque in Lourenço Marques

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

In 1940, a monument to Mouzinho de Albuquerque is inaugurated in the former capital of the Portuguese Colony of Mozambique, Lourenço Marques. The result of a lenghty commissioning process, this homage to one of the main heroes of the colonial pantheon becomes a center-piece in the many political rituals which had become common-place during the 1930s. The concepts of aura and cult value are used to analyse its “traditionalist” aesthetics and the role it played in political spectacles, arguing that it obeys a strategy of representation of the public space as “Empire.”

Monumentos coloniais em tempos pós-coloniais: o Monumento a Mouzinho de Albuquerque após o fim do Império

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Resumo e texto publicado nas actas de uma comunicação no IV Congresso de Historiadores de Arte Portuguesa, a 21 de Novembro de 2012, na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Monumentalidade e espaço público em Lourenço Marques nas décadas de 1930 e 1940

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Article-lenght summary of my master thesis, published in On the w@terfront 20 (January 2012), http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Waterfront/issue/view/18635.

Monumentalidade e espaço público em Lourenço Marques nas décadas de 1930 e 1940: dois casos de estudo

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract: Lourenço Marques, actual Maputo (Mozambique), is subjected to a series of aesthetic interventions in its public space during the 1930s e 1940s. These seek to “monumentalize” and “portugalize” the city, responding to its recently acquired status as capital of the Colony. Two important monuments appear as especially important and exemplary: the Padrão de Guerra, a first war memorial (1935), and the monument to the hero of the “pacification campaigns” of the 1890s, Mouzinho de Albuquerque (1940). Around these monuments, a large number of commemorative and celebrative practices is developed. Such practices posit the monument as a “national allegory” and reproduce, in the context of a modern city, auratic and cult values. As such, they add an important dimension to the monument’s role in the authoritarian reformulation of the city’s public space as an “imperial” space, as well as in the putative hegemonization of the representations of the community imagined as a “Nation.” They allow, therefore, to approach the political-ideological use and utility of the monument within the organization of public space.