Dez garrafas e um livro

• Autor(a) principal: Fadigas, Maria de Jesús da Palma, 1974-
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/34046
• topic: Blake, William, 1757-1827; Camões, Luís de, 1525?-1580; Livros; Livros de artista; Lusíadas; Signo; Narrativa visual; Fluxus; Arte povera; Práticas Tipográficas e Editoriais Contemporâneas

This dissertation sets out to analyse the creation of an artist's book inspired by the work of literature Os Lusíadas, by Luís Vaz de Camões. The main aim of this paper is to look into this work of classic literature as a starting point and analyse it from the perspective of a semiotic significance and not just to explore it as a mere collection of printed pages in order to understand the limits of the creation of a book as a form of artistic expression, with regards to its techniques and materials used, as well as its shape and format, or even from a conceptual standpoint. The objective is to examine the book as a semiotic sign, its signified and signifier, its connotation and denotation and not just as a mere set of printed pages sewn and bound and ready to be run through by readers who may try to decode and interpret it. In the first three chapters I put forward some concepts and notions which are relevant to this dissertation such as artists' books, sign and narrative as well as the thoughts and opinions of some authors who sought to interpret and understand the book as a means of artistic expression with its own identity and autonomy. In the fourth and final chapter I describe the development and production process of an artist's book based on the work of Os Lusíadas which makes up the practical component of this work which is composed of 10 message in bottles, which I called Ten Bottles and a Book. The practical component does not intend to reproduce or re-publish the entire works of Camões or its content, but rather it seeks out to create a significant object that arouses the imagination and sensitivity of the reader/receiver and at the same time be seen as a book, exploring the idea of narrative as a succession of events, actions within a space and time frame and which represents the essence of each of the 10 poems (cantos) that make up the original book. This is why I used the analogy of the 10 bottles, which is a reference to the messages tossed to sea by shipwrecked castaways.The option I've used for the dual 'bottle/message' is also a reference to the possibility (either fact of myth) that Os Lusíadas might have been salvaged from a shipwreck, according to Feliciano Ramos, in 'Historia da Literatura Portuguesa: «The poem Os Lusíadas that the poet was carrying with him was salvaged from the sea, but it did get wet.»