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A Christmas gift for everyone. Seasons greetings and happy reading!
Image: Christmas card from ALMADA project. An AI-generated creation inspired by the work of Almada Negreiros.
THE PUBLICATIONS OF PROJECT ALMADA
Free! E-book – On mural painting – Almada Negreiros, Spain and dictatorships. Conservation and art historical approaches
Editors: Mariana Pinto dos Santos; Milene Gil and Simão Palmeirim
2024 English edition, by the Institute of Art History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University/IN2PAST - Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory; HERCULES Laboratory, University of Évora
ISBN 9788-989-35191-4-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34619/ar2r-b807
Abstract
This book brings together works from the fields of conservation, heritage science and art history in a multidisciplinary approach, with contributions predominantly focusing on Almada Negreiros, alongside an important study on mural painting in 20th-century Spain. The chapters include findings from the lecture series See the Mural, Meet the artist, held online between June 2021 and 25 March 2022, as well as recent studies on the mural painting of Almada Negreiros.
Keywords: Mural painting, Modernisms, Dictatorships, Painting techniques, Public Art
Index
7 EDITORIAL
9 TESTEMONY
11 ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE JOSÉ DE FIGUEIREDO INSTITUTE AND WORK BRIGADES: THE CASE OF THE WORKS BY ALMADA NEGREIROS
Gabriela de Carvalho and Irene Frazão
31 ESSAYS
33 WHAT ABOUT SPANISH TWENTIETH-CENTURY MURALS? NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Mercedes Sánchez Pons
53 THE MURAL ART BY ALMADA NEGREIROS IN MADRID: THE POLYCHROME GYPSUM BAS-RELIEF FROM THE CINE SAN CARLOS
Michèle Portela, Inês Cardoso, Elsa Murta
71 SCIENCE APPLIED TO MODERN ART PAINTING STUDIES. TRADITIONAL PIGMENTS AND INNOVATIONS IN ALMADA NEGREIROS WORKING PALETTES AT THE DN BUILDING IN LISBON (PHASE 2)
Milene Gil, Mafalda Costa, Sara Valadas, Ana Margarida Cardoso, Yigit Zafer Helvaci, Shradha Bhattacharya, António Candeias
95 MATERIALISATION AND MATERIALITY IN ALMADA’S GEOMETRY. THREE CASE STUDIES IN MURAL WORKS
Simão Palmeirim, Pedro Jorge Santos Freitas
113 ALMADA NEGREIROS DECORATIONFOR THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS IN LISBON
Ana Mehnert Pascoal
133 DEFYING THE DICTATORSHIP: THE MURAL PAINTINGS OF ALMADA NEGREIROS AT THE MARITIME STATION ROCHA DO CONDE DE ÓBIDOS. NEW ART HISTORICAL READINGS
Mariana Pinto dos Santos
Sharing memories
Vídeos about Almada Negreiros in the RTP Archives (in Portuguese):
Enterview with Almada Negreiros . 1968
Enterview conducted by journalist Manuel Varela, RTP Archives, 1968
ALMADA NEGREIROS
Documentary authored by Álvaro Manuel Machado and produced by de Emídio Uva, RTP1, 1977
ALMADA NEGREIROS: IF NOT THROUGH ART, THEN IN NO OTHER WAY
Documentary with text by João Rocha, narrated by Eládio Climaco, produced by Fernando de Ávila and directed by José Elyseu, RTP1, 1983
CENTENARY OF ALMADA NEGREIROS
Celebration of the centenary of the birth of the artist Almada Negreiros, RTP1, 1993
News published on the website
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On the Loose in Los Angeles
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Visit to HERCULES Laboratory by two leading experts in the world of conservation and restoration and heritage science
Project PTDC/ART-HIS/1370/2020 financed by national funds through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P.
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