Publications

The legacy of José de Almada Negreiros (1893-1970) spans a vast array of creative forms and facets, including visual art (drawing, caricature, illustration, painting, stained glass, mural, tapestry), literature (poetry, drama, narrative, essay), performance (dance, acting, direction, promotion), and general culture (research, editing, debate, manifesto).

The many strands of Almada Negreiros’s artistic character merge and intertwine to form a complex balance between unity and diversity, focus and dispersion. Carlos Paulo Martínez Pereiro’s complex, cross-disciplinary study of A Engomadeira (Novela Vulgar Lisboeta) and the avant-garde years of 1915-1917 offers readers a rare insight into the extraordinary artistic achievement and authorial brilliance of the writer and artist described by Fernando Pessoa himself as an ‘absolute genius’.