Recensão: David Santos, "A Reinvenção do real – Curadoria e Arte contemporânea no Museu do Neo-realismo"

Recensão de: David Santos, "A Reinvenção do real – Curadoria e Arte contemporânea no Museu do Neo-realismo", Lisboa: Sistema Solar CRL (Documenta), 2014

Neo-realismo e poesia: do ideológico ao estético

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

O realismo inverossímil na literatura combinatória de Italo Calvino

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Do ideológico ao estético: encontro com os dois turismos, de Carlos de Oliveira

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

As representações do intelectual na correspondência entre Jorge de Sena e Vergílio Ferreira ― (1950‐1975)

The purpose of this article is to discuss the representations of intellectual in the epistolary production of Jorge de Sena (1919‐1978), more specifically in correspondence with Virgil Ferreira (1916‐1997), which occurred between the years 1950 to 1975. Some topics, such as the condition of intellectual dictatorship, the position of the writer and his relations with the aesthetics of Neo‐Realism and the condition of exile, are important topics that make up most of the concerns of both writers.

Entrevista com David Santos

David Santos é cara conhecida de muitos de nós, tendo feito notícia a sua demissão do Museu do Chiado em Julho de 2015, cargo que ocupava desde 2013. Foi ainda director do Museu do Neo-Realismo (Vila Franca de Xira). É Historiador de arte e curador de arte moderna e contemporânea, sendo doutorado em Arte Contemporânea pela Universidade de Coimbra, mestre em História Política e Social, pela Universidade Lusófona, pós-graduado em História da Arte e licenciado em História, na variante de História de Arte, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Mas é como subdirector da Direcção-Geral do Património Cultural (DGPC), com responsabilidades atribuídas na área dos museus, cargo que ocupa desde Fevereiro de 2016, que nos concedeu esta entrevista. Ainda sem uma estratégia tornada pública que estabeleça orientações e metas para a política museológica a ser seguida, David Santos destaca, no entanto, uma das prioridades da DGPC para o campo dos museus e do património: uma “verdadeira” democratização do acesso. Como? No investimento na comunicação das colecções através do digital, na valorização das actividades por via de maior divulgação, nomeadamente publicidade, no estímulo às parcerias e na procura de mais apoios mecenáticos. É de realçar um dado positivo para 2017: a possibilidade de entrarem 37 assistentes técnicos para os museus, palácios e monumentos tutelados pela DGPC, com a abertura prevista de novos concursos públicos.

O desencantamento da história: literatura e resistência no primeiro romance de Calvino

RESUMO: O presente estudo busca explicitar o anti-conformismo ideológico que norteia a escritura do romance de estréia de Italo Calvino, Il Sentiero dei nidi di ragno. Claramente na contra-mão da produção literária italiana do imediato pós-guerra, Calvino não se rende ao padrão quase obrigatório do neo-realismo, e manifesta em sua obra sua visão desencantada da História.

Is the flower still beautiful after hours and hours closed in a pocket? About representations, idealizations and disappointments in Augusto Abelaira

The present work proposes a reading of the artistic-intellectual project of the Portuguese writer Augusto Abelaira, from de novels The City of Flowers and Bolor, in order to place him in the scenery of the Portuguese neo-realism and the intellectual resistance against fascism. The expression of the idealizations and disappointments in the work of Abelaira points to an opposite direction to that identified with the socialist realism and with what was conventionally called doctrinaire neo-realism in Portugal before the public emergency of the controversy between those who defended the primacy of the content and another aesthetic response that problematizes the pre-eminence of a specular model. Thus, there never was an internal homogeneity neither aesthetic nor theoretical in the movement. The public emergency of this debate translates a controversy that is not confined to the aesthetic, but is, in its most profound dimension, theoretical and political. The objective of the work is to demonstrate the writing procedures of Augusto Abelaira as susceptible techniques to represent conceptions of life and of the world able to translate a social demand, that are, ultimately, writing programs appropriate to the envisioned transformations. Therefore, there is not one unique neo-realistic writing program, but there is a neo-realistic aesthetics which is the literary neo-realism itself that the works of Augusto Abelaira helps to compose.      Keywords: Augusto Abelaira; Intellectual writer; Neo-realism. 

Análisis de la Política Exterior rusa enmarcada en el concepto de “Espacio Post-soviético”, a la luz de la teoría de Realismo Clásico de Hans Morgenthau durante los dos periodos de Vladimir Putin, 2000 A 2008

La Política Exterior rusa ha tenido un giro sustancial con la llegada de Vladimir Putin en el año 2000. En consecuencia, esto se ve reflejado en las acciones tomadas por el Kremlin con las revoluciones de Ucrania (Revolución Naranja) y Georgia (Revolución de las Rosas). La apuesta de los dos mandatos de Putin era claramente influenciar su zona geográficamente más cercana, es decir el "Espacio Post-soviético".

Realismo y entidades abstractas : los problemas del conocimiento en matemáticas.

Plantea el problema de explicar el conocimiento de las entidades matemáticas, el desarrollo de la facultad de la intuición matemática. Se parte de la existencia de las entidades abstractas y de su independencia de nosotros; a partir de aquí y tras constatar las dificultades de esta postura, se va matizando poco a poco, hasta llegar a un tipo de realismo mucho más moderado. Propuestas y dilemas. Dilema de Benacerraf-Field, la propuesta de Penelope Maddy, propuesta de los denominados neo-fregeanos, propuesta de Michale Dummett, propuesta de Hilary Putnam, Crispin Wright. Los problemas epistemológicos representan el mayor obstáculo para el realismo en matemáticas. Las opciones anti-realistas por el contrario tienen dificultades para desarrollar una noción de verdad matemática que no rompa la uniformidad semántica con el ámbito empírico. Se defiende una postura moderada, libre de connotaciones metafísicas. Como conclusión final, se defiende la necesidad de adoptar un tipo de realismo moderado para las matemáticas (pero no sólo para ellas), en el cual el problema del conocimiento pueda ser visto como un problema de objetividad. Se defiende, además, que la existencia de las entidades matemáticas no es un elemento indispensable: es la objetividad matemática la que es indispensable para la aplicación de las matemáticas al resto de la ciencia. De esta manera, el problema central pasa ahora a ser la búsqueda de la justificación para la objetividad matemática, entendida como la objetividad en la elección de los axiomas básicos. En este sentido, se defiende la combinación de un tipo de justificación externa, a través de la aplicación y utilidad de estos axiomas básicos para el desarrollo de la propia disciplina de la que formen parte, y un tipo de justificación interna, por medio de la cual se explique satisfactoriamente la fiabilidad de las creencias de los matemáticos en estos axiomas básicos y por lo tanto la verdad de los mismos. Para este último, se propone la adopción de los conceptos dependientes de la respuesta en el ámbito matemático..

Il realismo di un nuovissimo medio evo: Boccaccio in the age of neorealism

After the war Italian artists and intellectuals saw a significant and necessary confluence between their political desire to create a "new." Italy and their cultural ambition to re-invigorate the study of medieval Italy. This tendency is particularly evident, I argue, in the post-war scholarly and critical focus on Boccaccio, and especially Boccaccio’s Decameron. Not only within the academy but also in the popular press, Boccaccio was granted pride of place in the canon, venerated as the pioneer of socially conscious vernacular literary realism, the archetype for the pursuit of artistic truth in the face of social upheaval. As a result, I wish to suggest, Italian neorealism, which rose to prominence in the first years after the Second World War, was in a significant sense imbued with and realised through a profound engagement with the work of Boccaccio. In turn, the cultural currents affiliated with neorealism influenced Boccaccio studies, whose operative notions of medieval «realism» were to a perhaps surprising degree stimulated by approaches to the neo-realist poetics at work in the Italian films, novels, and criticism of the 1940s and ’50s. Situating the critical discourse surrounding Boccaccio within the post-war Italian context can therefore serve to shed unexpected light on both the cultural affirmation of neorealism and the disciplinary configuration of Italian medieval studies.

Neo-Dandy

Neo-Dandy was a practice-led research project that explored histories of a quintessential men’s and womenswear garment from across the ages — the formal white dress shirt. The aim was to generate a body of radically new mens’ shirts that, whilst incorporating characteristics normally associated with womenswear, would remain acceptable to male wearers. A detailed study identified a broad spectrum of historical design approaches, ranging from the orthodox man’s shirt to the many variations of the women’s blouse. Within this spectrum a threshold was discovered where the men’s shirt morphed into the woman’s blouse — a ‘design moment’ that appeared to typify the dandy figure (a fashion character who subversively confronts dress norms of their day). The research analysed thousands of archive catwalk images from leading contemporary menswear designers, and of these, only a small number tampered appreciably with the men’s white dress shirt — suggesting a new realm of possibility for fashion design innovation. This led to the creation of a new body of work labelled ‘Neo-Dandy’. Sixty ‘concept shirts’ were produced, with differing styles and varying degrees of detailing, that fitted the brief of being acceptable to male wearers, eminently ‘wearable’ and on a threshold position between menswear and womenswear. These designs were each tested, documented, and assessed in their capacity to evolve the Neo-Dandy aesthetic. Based on these outcomes, a list of key design principles for achieving this aesthetic was identified to assist designers in further evolving this style. The creative work achieved substantial public acclaim with the ‘Neo Dandy Collection’ winning a prestigious Design Institute of Australia Award (Lifestyle category) and being one of four finalists in the prestigious overall field for design excellence. It was subsequently curated into three major Brisbane exhibitions — the ARC Biennial, at Artisan Gallery and the industry leader, the Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival. The collection was also exhibited at the Queensland Art Gallery.

Neo-Dandy

Neo-Dandy was a practice-led research project that explored histories of a quintessential men’s and womenswear garment from across the ages — the formal white dress shirt. The aim was to generate a body of radically new mens’ shirts that incorporated characteristics normally associated with womenswear, whist remaining acceptable to male wearers. A detailed study identified a broad spectrum of historical design approaches, ranging from the orthodox man’s shirt to the many variations of the women’s blouse. Within this spectrum a threshold was discovered where the men’s shirt morphed into the woman’s blouse — a ‘design moment’ that appeared to typify the dandy figure (a fashion character who subversively confronts dress norms of their day). The research analysed thousands of archive catwalk images from leading contemporary menswear designers, and of these, only a small number tampered appreciably with the men’s white dress shirt — suggesting a new realm of possibility for fashion design innovation. This led to the creation of a new body of work labelled ‘Neo-Dandy’. Sixty ‘concept shirts’ were produced, with differing styles and varying degrees of detailing, that fitted the brief of being acceptable to male wearers, eminently ‘wearable’ and on a threshold position between menswear and womenswear. These designs were each tested, documented, and assessed in their capacity to evolve the Neo-Dandy aesthetic. Based on these outcomes, a list of key design principles for achieving this aesthetic was identified to assist designers in further evolving this style. The creative work achieved substantial public acclaim with the ‘Neo Dandy Collection’ winning a prestigious Design Institute of Australia Award (Lifestyle category) and being one of four finalists in the prestigious overall field for design excellence. It was subsequently curated into three major Brisbane exhibitions — the ARC Biennial, at Artisan Gallery and the industry leader, the Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival. The collection was also exhibited at the Queensland Art Gallery.