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Portuguese Heritage in the World

Objectives

To know and to understand the Portuguese presence in different geographical areas during the 16th-18th centuries, and the architecture and objects resulting from the contacts established and the interactions with different cultures and 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 and models that can be understood as paradigmatic of this universe;
c) Understand the transposition of models, experimentalisms and adaptations;
d) Use critically the operating concepts;
e) Reflect on the methodological characteristics of the study of an artistic corpus with European referents, but generated overseas.

General characterization

Code

722061102

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Alexandra Curvelo da Silva Campos

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

English

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

(see the UC Programme in PDF for Bibliography and compulsory readings)


Frederick COOPER, Colonialism in Question. Theory, Knowledge, History. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 2005.
Jason KEITH FERNANDES, “Indo Portuguese Art and the space of the Islamicate”, Parmal 7, 2008, pp. 41-50.
Thomas DaCosta KAUFMANN; Catherine DOSSIN, Béatrice JOYEUX-PRUNEL, “Reintroducing Circulations: Historiography and the Project of Global Art History”, Global Artistic Circulations and the History of Art, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015, pp.1-22.
Património de origem portuguesa no mundo. Dir. José Mattoso. 4 Vols. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2010.
Mário PEREIRA, African Art at the Portuguese Court, c. 1450-1521.PhD in History of Art and Architecture at Brown University, May 2010.
Walter ROSSA; Margarida Calafate RIBEIRO (org.), Patrimónios de influência portuguesa: modos de olhar. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2015.

Teaching method

The classes will be held in person, and they will be supplemented by visits to museums to enhance the learning experience.

Evaluation method

Assessment / Evaluation


 


1.     Text discussion and classroom participation (40% of the total grade);


 


2.     An individual assignment to be presented orally in the classroom (15 minutes) and in writing. This Essay should consist either of a critical analysis of a text/chapter/book or an analysis of an object displayed in a Portuguese collection related to the contents of the Curricular Unit. This Essay must have 10.000 characters (excluding spaces, bibliography and images). The format must be hereby specified: average margins, Times New Roman font, size 12, 1.5 line spacing. (60% of the total grade).


The individual Essay is to be uploaded to the platform in Word format by the 3rd of June.

Subject matter

1. 19th February – Presentation of the Curricular Unit’s program, bibliography, methodology and assessment.


 


2. 23rd February, Friday, from 6pm until 8 pm – Visit to Museu do Oriente


For this visit, please read: Elsa PERALTA, “The Presence of the Past. Imagination and Affect in the Museu do Oriente, Portugal”. The International Handbooks of Museum Studies: Museum Theory. Edited by Andrea Witcomb and Kylie Message. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2015


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3. 26th February – Conceptual and methodological frames.


Text to be disussed in the classroom:


Frederick COOPER, “Part II - Concepts in question”, Colonialism in Question. Theory, Knowledge, History. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 2005, pp.57-149.
Francisco BEHENCOURT, “Colonização e Pós-Colonialismo: as teias do património”. Walter Rossa; Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, (Org.), Patrimónios de influência portuguesa: modos de olhar. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2015, pp.121-146.


 


4. 4th March – Morocco: the built heritage. Continuations and ruptures of an architectural praxis of military architecture and its dissemination.


Text to be discussed in the classroom:


Renata ARAÚJO, “Influência, Origem, Matriz”. Walter Rossa; Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, (Org.), Patrimónios de influência portuguesa: modos de olhar. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2015, pp.47-63.
Foteini VLACHOU, “Why Spatial? Time and the Periphery”. Visual Resources. An international journal on images and their uses, 2016, pp.1-16.


 


5. 11th March – The Gulf of Guinea: built heritage and movable heritage. Discussion of the concept of “Afro-Portuguese”.


Texts to be discussed in the classroom:


António Sousa RIBEIRO, “Memória”. Walter Rossa; Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, (Org.), Patrimónios de influência portuguesa: modos de olhar. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2015, pp.81-94.
Eviatar ZERUBAVEL, Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press. (“The Social Structure of Memory Introduction”, pp.1-10 and Chapter 2 “Historical Continuity”, pp.37-54)


 


6. 18th March – Goa.


Texts to be discussed in the classroom:


Inês LOURENÇO, “As histórias alternativas do objeto: o cofre-relicário de São Francisco Xavier e a identidade religiosa dos goeses em Portugal”. MIDAS Museus e estudos interdisciplinares, 8 | 2017, Dossier temático "Objetos e museus: biografias, narrativas e vínculos identitários" pp.1-19.
Andreas ACKERMANN, “Cultural Hybridity: Between Metaphor and Empiricism”. Philipp Wolfgang Stockhammer (Editor), Conceptualizing Cultural Hybridization. A Transdisciplinary Approach. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2012pp.5-23.


 


7. 8th April – Manufacture and circulation of objects in the context of the Portuguese overseas expansion (16th to 18th centuries).


Texts to be presented in the classroom:


• David ARMITAGE, “The International Turn in Intellectual History”. Darrin M. McMahon and Samuel Moyn (Ed.), Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History. Oxford Scholarship Online, 2014, pp.1-21.


• Sebastian CONRAD, “Space in global history”, What Is Global History? Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016, pp. 115-140.


 


8. 15th April – Manufacture and circulation of objects in the context of the Portuguese overseas expansion (16th to 18th centuries).


Text to be discussed in the classroom:


Michael YONAN, “Toward a Fusion of Art History and Material Culture Studies”, West 86th A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Fall-Winter 2011), pp. 232-248.


 


9. 19th April – Visit to the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga from 14h30 to 17h45.


 


10. 22nd April – Chinese export porcelain: production, circulation and reception.


Texts to be discussed in the classroom:


Anne E. C. McCANTS, “Exotic Goods, Popular Consumption, and the Standard of Living: Thinking about Globalization in the Early Modern World”, Journal of World History, Volume 18, Number 4, December 2007, pp. 433-462.
Anne GERRITSEN; Stephen McDOWALL, “Material Culture and the Other: European Encounters with Chinese Porcelain, ca. 1650-1800”, Journal of World History, Volume 23, Number 1, March 2012, pp. 87-113.


 


11. 29th April – Japan: the nanban phenomenon. Material and intangible heritage.


Texts to be discussed in the classroom:


Naoko Frances HIOKI, “Visual Bilingualism and Mission Art: A Reconsideration of "Early Western-Style Painting" in Japan”, Japan Review, No. 23 (2011), pp. 23-44.
Peter BURKE, “Cultures of translation in early modern Europe”. Peter Burke and R. Po-Chia Hsia (Ed.), Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp.7-38.


 


12. 6th May – Brazil: the arts in the sugar cycle and the gold cycle (Professor Nuno Senos)


 


13. 13th May – Oral presentation and discussion of the written essays.


14. 20th May – Oral presentation and discussion of the written essays.


15. 27th May – Tutorial class for the final writing assessment.