A fortuna dos escritores: estátuas inauguradas no Porto na década de 50

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Célia
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Rio Novo, Isabel, Padrão, Maria Helena, Guerra, Inês
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.24/459
• topic: história literária; estatuária; Anos 50

In this paper, we present the current stage results of a literary geo-referencing project, which aimed, in its first stage, to develop Portuguese authors literary routes using a widespread online platform for geographical information, Google Maps. At this current stage, we seek to build a database of authors and works related to Porto, leading, namely, to the research on all the statues located in the city’s metropolitan area that portrait writers. We present an analysis on such statues inaugurated during the 1950s, taking into account the following aspects: i) survey and analysis of the so called writer’s fortune; ii) identification of the statues’ authors and their integration within the overall context of both artist’s work and Portuguese art scene in the mid-twentieth century; iii) contextualization of the writers public success into the ideological and cultural framework of the Portuguese dictatorship; iv) research, within the municipal archives, of the circumstances that justified such monuments. We believe that, because of its interdisciplinary nature, this study will provide unique results: the portraited writer; the artist who created the statue and the specific time of its inauguration; the historical and literary context framing this iconic representation; and finally, the link between the writer and the chosen place for the honor. All this will certainly provide corpora to corporate for future studies in the crossing field between History of Culture, Art History and Literary History.