Collections Exhibitions And Museums In Portugal And Its Empire From The 18Th To The 20Th Century

Focusing on the period between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the late twentieth century this edited volume examines the histories of objects museums exhibitions and collections in Portugal or outside Portugal but representing Portugal or related to it through colonial relationships. The book highlights the specificities of the Portuguese case set against a globalised transnational and transcolonial context and provides a precedent for future studies and a dialogue with equivalent studies related to other geographies. The diversity of the cultural intellectual and political contexts (imperial colonial monarchical republican authoritarian) offered by the Portuguese example allows for the exploration of a number of complex case-studies. Chapters study the artistic collecting and museological practices in Portugal and in the various geographical contexts of its colonial empire with particular emphasis on the circulation and connectedness of objects products people and ideas. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history museum studies intellectual and cultural history and imperial and colonial history. |Collections Exhibitions and Museums in Portugal and Its Empire From the 18th to the 20th century