Lapa, Pedro2021-06-172021-06-172020Lapa, Pedro, “ Joaquim Rodrigo’s Painting, A Particularity in the Portuguese Case” in Rethinking Postwar Europe. Artistic Production and Discourses on Art in the late 1940’s and 1950’s. Edited by Barbara Lange, Dirk Hildebrandt, Agata Pietrasik,197-212. Wien, Köln, Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2020.978-3-412-51400-6http://hdl.handle.net/10451/48614Capítulo da obra "RETHINKING EUROPE: ARTISTIC PRODUCTION AND DISCOURSES OF ART IN THE LATE 1940S AND 1950S.", que resultou da conferência ocorrida em 2018.In the postwar period, Portuguese art faced a politically-imposed isolation that prevented emerging artists from engaging and interacting with the rest of Europe. For these artisits, other geographical, cultural contexts were no more than remote possibilities of exchange: sometimes mythical places of an avant-garde known through magazine articles, sometimes places they had briefly visited in search of a more direct link with their time. Portugal lived in an established dictatorship known as Estado Novo (New State) that lasted until 1974. The regime's anti-modernism sought to eliminate all modern artistic practices in an attempt to preserve its traditional cultural values, strongly dominated by the government's fascist ideology. The absence of structures for the production, exhibition, and reception of modern art during the twentieth century contributed towards the lessening of modern pratices in the national context, hindering the development of knowledge updated by artists, critics, and audiences. In spite of these setbacks, overall Portuguese artists succeded in overcoming this aloofness to which the regime condemned them. Over time, these artists managed to find ways to a distant modernity - which had become predominant in the process of reconstructing a new world in the postwar period in Wetern Europe. [com o apoio à tradução da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - FCT]engPostwar EuropeRodrigo, Joaquim, 1912-1997Estado Novobook parthttps://doi.org/10.7788/9783412514020.197