Figurative Arts in the Portuguese Orient
Code
722061063
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História da Arte
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
To know and to understand the Portuguese presence in Asia during the 16th-18th centuries, the different geographical, political, social and religious stages and the figurative arts resulting from the contacts established and the interactions with different civilizations, in particular:
a) Understand the heterogeneity of the Portuguese or luso-asiatic presence and the artistic phenomena associated with it;
b) Understand and analyse some tipologies that can be understood as paradigmatic of this universe;
c) Integrate the subject in general cultural and artistic themes;
d) Use critically some of the operating concepts;
e) Reflect on the methodological characteristics of the study of an artistic corpus with European referents, but generated overseas.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
I) State of the art.
II) Presentation and reflection on concepts, terms and grids of analysis.
III) Contexts of the Portuguese presence in Asia.
IV) Figurative arts: visuality, meaning and materiality.
V) Networks, agents, circuits, commissions, receptions, consumption.
Bibliography
As Artes Decorativas e a Expansão Portuguesa: Imaginário e Viagem. Actas do 20º Colóquio de Artes Decorativas: 10º Simpósio Internacional. Lisboa: ESAD, 2010.
BAILEY, Gauvin Alexander; MASSING, Jean Michel; SILVA, Nuno Vassalo e, Marfins no Império Português/Ivories in the Portuguese Empire. Lisboa: Scribe, 2013.
MOREIRA Rafael; CURVELO, Alexandra, “A Circulação das Formas. Artes Portáteis, Arquitectura e Urbanismo”. História da expansão portuguesa. Vol.2: Do Índico ao Atlântico, 1570-1697. Dir. Francisco Bethencourt; Kirti Chaudhuri. Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores, 1998, p.532-570.
MOREIRA, Rafael, “Cultura Material e Visual”. História da expansão portuguesa. Vol.1: A formação do império, 1415-1570. Dir. Francisco Bethencourt; Kirti Chaudhuri. Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores, 1998, p.455-486.
Teaching method
Theoretical-practical, using images and texts.
Evaluation method
Accordingly, the final evaluation will consist on a paper to be discussed in a theoretical session (40%) and in an individual work, to be presented in writing and orally (60%).