A Tensão para o inanimado ou a emergência da morte na vida nas mulheres-árvore de António Pedro
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/R59021PG
Abstract
Abstract: António Pedro, considered a pioneer of the Portuguese surrealist movement, stands by the assertion of a plastic thinking where word and image converge. In the work of this author, the feminine, in its multiple meanings and relations, emerges as a main theme, taking on a diversity of representations and significances. In this article, an analysis of the connections between plastic and literary works confirms a series of constant images that converge towards a representation of the feminine as a privileged object of destructive impulses. The study of women-trees present in the pictorial work of António Pedro, when considered alongside Apenas uma narrativa, enables us to identify, in the feminine metamorphoses that characterize both these compositions, a regressive or degenerative movement. This movement, a metaphor of the author’s action, aims towards immobility or inertia, in other words, towards the definitive passage to an inanimate or dehumanized state.
Recommended Citation
Rocha, Michele
(2014)
"A Tensão para o inanimado ou a emergência da morte na vida nas mulheres-árvore de António Pedro,"
Portuguese Cultural Studies:
Vol. 5:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/p/vol5/iss1/3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7275/R59021PG