Romanticism and the Peripheries
An International and Interdisciplinary Conference
“The Romantic phenomenon seems to defy analysis, not only because its exuberant diversity resists any attempt to reduce it to a common denominator but also and especially because of its fabulously contradictory character” (Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre, Romanticism against the Tide of Modernity,trans. by Catherine Porter, Durham/London: Duke University Press, 2001). In an attempt to accommodate both its diversity and contradictory character, Löwy andSayre defined Romanticism as “a worldview constituted as a specific form of criticism of ‘modernity’” and expanded the term beyond artistic and literary phenomena to encompass a wide range of fields such as religion, political theory, philosophy, etc. Even though Löwy and Sayre may offer a guiding principle outside the interpretative confusion often generated by the term, their analysis is still mostly, if not exclusively, concerned with the definition of the phenomenon as it manifested in the principal centers of Europe (namely England, France, and Germany).
This three-day conference, organized on the occasion of the bicentenary of Fernando II’s birth, the Portuguese king responsible for the edification of what is widely considered the hallmark of Romantic Portuguese architecture, seeks to focus on Romanticism in the peripheries, both European and non-European, and explore the validity of the concept for the analysis of artistic and cultural forms that, for the most part, originated outside the centers of bourgeois industrial civilization.
This three-day conference, organized on the occasion of the bicentenary of Fernando II’s birth, the Portuguese king responsible for the edification of what is widely considered the hallmark of Romantic Portuguese architecture, seeks to focus on Romanticism in the peripheries, both European and non-European, and explore the validity of the concept for the analysis of artistic and cultural forms that, for the most part, originated outside the centers of bourgeois industrial civilization.
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Image credits: Landscape with houses and figures in profile against a full moon; with a separate sheet tied to it with a printed menu in Portuguese for a feast on 18 September 1999 Aquatint with a second sheet in colour collaged before printing. Print made by: Bartolomeu Dos Santos, 1999. British Museum
Image credits: Landscape with houses and figures in profile against a full moon; with a separate sheet tied to it with a printed menu in Portuguese for a feast on 18 September 1999 Aquatint with a second sheet in colour collaged before printing. Print made by: Bartolomeu Dos Santos, 1999. British Museum
This event is funded by national funds through FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, within the strategic project UID/PAM/00417/2013.
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Ana Celeste Glória (IHA/FCSH/NOVA)
Mariana Gonçalves (IHA/FCSH/NOVA)
Patrícia Melo (IHA/FCSH/NOVA)
Ana Celeste Glória (IHA/FCSH/NOVA)
Mariana Gonçalves (IHA/FCSH/NOVA)
Patrícia Melo (IHA/FCSH/NOVA)