Abstract
Cartografar as representações do império colonial português ao longo do século XX, tomando como ponto de partida o Acto Colonial de 1930, é o objectivo desta investigação em História da Arte que se estrutura segundo uma abordagem transdisciplinar. O presente estudo analisa a imagem e o imaginário colonial actualizados pelo Estado Novo através da propaganda, as adaptações desses discursos identitários a circunstâncias políticas e internacionais, bem como algumas imagens produzidas durante os anos da guerra colonial que poria fim ao império e à ditadura. São igualmente analisadas representações criadas posteriormente à revolução de 1974 e à instauração da democracia em Portugal, confrontando e colocando em paralelo aos enunciados oficiais as contra-imagens que foram sendo produzidas por artistas e outros agentes culturais que se debruçaram sobre o colonialismo português. A produção artística contemporânea sobre o tema é objecto de uma análise mais centrada em questões específicas que se relacionam, em várias articulações, com o pós-colonial, a “pós-memória” da guerra e a memória colectiva.
To map the representations of the Portuguese colonial empire throughout the 20th century, taking the 1930 Colonial Act as the starting point, is the aim of this Art History research project structured in a transdisciplinary approach. This study analyses the colonial image and imaginary updated by Estado Novo’s propaganda, the adaptations of those identity discourses to political and international circumstances, as well as certain images produced during the colonial war that would put an end to the Portuguese empire and to the dictatorship. It also analyses representations produced after the 1974 revolution and the establishment of democracy in Portugal, confronting and putting into parallel the official discourses and the counter-images created by artists and other cultural agents, who reflected upon Portuguese colonialism. The contemporary artistic production on the theme is subject of a more focused analysis on specific issues that relate, in diverse connections, to the postcolonial, "postmemory" of the war and collective memory.
To map the representations of the Portuguese colonial empire throughout the 20th century, taking the 1930 Colonial Act as the starting point, is the aim of this Art History research project structured in a transdisciplinary approach. This study analyses the colonial image and imaginary updated by Estado Novo’s propaganda, the adaptations of those identity discourses to political and international circumstances, as well as certain images produced during the colonial war that would put an end to the Portuguese empire and to the dictatorship. It also analyses representations produced after the 1974 revolution and the establishment of democracy in Portugal, confronting and putting into parallel the official discourses and the counter-images created by artists and other cultural agents, who reflected upon Portuguese colonialism. The contemporary artistic production on the theme is subject of a more focused analysis on specific issues that relate, in diverse connections, to the postcolonial, "postmemory" of the war and collective memory.
| Original language | Portuguese |
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| Qualification | Doctor of Philosophy |
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| Award date | 30 Jan 2019 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
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