RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 44

February 2005

 
 PART IV:

Art & Art History, Architecture,

Archeology, Applied Arts

 

See also items 4, 9, 16, 67, 71, 103, 143, 145, 161, 166, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 214, 223, 228 & 230.

22. BAPTISTA PEREIRA, Fernando António, ed. Do mundo antigo aos novos mundos: humanismo, classicismo e notícias dos descobrimentos em Evora (1516-1624). Lisbon: CNCDP, and Evora: Câmara Municipal, 1998. Thick folio (31 x 24 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 518 pp., profusely and very nicely illus. in color. ISBN: 972-8325-68-1. $100.00

Massive catalogue of an exhibition held in Evora at the Museu do Artesanato (Celeiro), from 24 July 1998 to 20 January 1999. Weighs in at 3 kilograms. Includes texts by the editor (an introduction regarding the concept of the exhibition, pp. 15-26); Maria Leonor Carvalhão Buescu on humanism and literature in sixteenth-century Portugal (pp. 27-42); Joaquim Lavajo on the humanities in Evora (pp. 43-76); Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, "Duas vidas e um pequeno Livro que André de Resende Ofereceu à sua cidade de Evora" (pp. 77-118); Rui Manuel Loureiro on Portuguese humanism and the Orient (pp. 119-36); Rui Vieira Nery on music at the Cathedral in Evora (pp. 137-54); José Alberto Seabra Carvalho, "Frei Carlos e o outro proposições sobre a pintura da oficina do Espinheiro" (pp. 155-70); Fernando Jorge Artur Grilo on the sculptor Nicolau Chanterene (pp. 171-90); Joaquim Oliveira Caetano on the palace of the Castros in Evora (pp. 191-218); and Manuel J.C. Branco on the Renaissance, mannerism and the "estilo chão" in Evora (pp. 219-48). The actual catalogue is divided into three parts, "A conquista de uma nova cultura" (pp. 250-339); "A experiência dos limites" (pp. 340-453); and "Constuindo o futuro: (pp. 454-510). A bibliography occupies pp. 511-18.
 

23. CARVALHO RIBEIRO, Luís Filipe. Azulejos de Lisboa. 2 vols. Lisbon and Porto: Litexa, 2002-2003. Folio (28.4 x 21.8 cm.), publ. illus. bds. with d.j. 199; 199 pp., both volumes profusely and well illus. in color. ISBN: 972-578-165-1; 972-578-169-4. 2 vols. $120.00


24. COSTA, Fernanda Gil, and Helena Gonçalves da Silva. Metrópoles na pós-modernidade. Lisbon: Colibri, 2004. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 178 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-772-489-2. $20.00

Among the eleven contributors are Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles, Ludwig Scheidl, and Helena Gonçalves da Silva. Two essays are in English, two in German; the rest are in Portuguese.

 
25. FRANÇA, José-Augusto. Historia da arte em Portugal. Volume VI: O modernismo (século XX). Queluz de Baixo: Presença, 2004. Tall 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 209 pp., amply and nicely illus., mostly in color. ISBN: 972-23-3244-9. $45.00

 
26. FRANÇA, José-Augusto. Lisboa: urbanismo e arquitectura. 4 edição, revista e actualizada. Lisbon: Horizonte, 2000. Colecção Cidade de Lisboa, 29. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 119 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-24-0998-0. $20.00

 
27. GONÇALVES, Cláudia, and Stephanie Salomon, eds. Claes Oldenburg, Cossje van Bruggen. Pelo Passeio dos Liquidâmbares: escultura no parque. / Down Liquidambar Lane: Sculture in the Park. Sofia Gomes, trans. Porto: Fundação de Serralves, 2002. Lge. 4° (29.1 x 24.7 cm.), publ. cloth with d.j. 143, (1) pp., (2 ll.), profusely and very well illustrated, mostly in color. ISBN: 972-739-087-0. Texts by Richard Cork and Alexandre Melo. $70.00
 

28. PAIS DA SILVA, Jorge Henrique. História comparada da arte: cronologia. Lisbon: Colibri, 2004. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 178 pp., (1 l.). One of 750 copies. ISBN: 972-772-442-6. $25.00
 

29. SERRÃO, Vítor. Josefa em Obidos. Lisbon: Quetzal, 2003. Sm. 4°, publ. cloth with color illus. tipped on to front cover. 111 pp., much good quality illus., mostly in color. Text in Portuguese and English. ISBN: 972-564-578-2. $45.00

Excellent study of this important artist. The English text reads well, but begins by calling Josefa de Obidos a sixteenth- rather than a seventeenth-century painter. In the Portuguese text her century is correctly identified.
 

30. SILVA PASSOS, José Manuel da. Costumes portugueses. Preface by Dalila Lello Pereira da Costa, in English and Portuguese. Lisbon: Horizonte, 2000. Lge. 4° (24 x 22 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 160, (1) pp., (1 l.), profusely and well illus., mostly in color (it appears that the original black and white postcards are reproduced in color). ISBN: 972-24-1127-6. $50.00

The author has judiciously selected 160 illustrated postcards from the first half of the twentieth century.

 
31. TOSTÕES, Ana, and Sandra Vaz Costa, eds. Arquitectura moderna portuguesa, 1920-1970. Lisbon: IPPAR, 2004. Património Moderno. 4° (24.5 x 23 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 391 pp., profusely and very well illus., much illus. in color. ISBN: 972-8736-35-5. $65.00

Includes texts by the editors, as well as by Bárbara Coutinho, Beolinda Folgado, Gonçalo Canto Moniz, João Paulo Martins, José António Oliveira Bandeirinha, Jorge Figueira, Manuel Lacerda, Rute Figueiredo, and Susana Lobo.