Networks, Collaboration and Resistance in/between Portugal and Brazil, 1962–1982: Works from the Arquivo Fernando Aguiar and the Coleção Moraes-Barbosa

This bilingual publication (English/Portuguese) is much more than the catalog of an exhibition. It is excellently edited by Maika Pollack, Assistant Professor of Art History and Director and Chief Curator, John Young Museum of Art and university galleries, at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, with a catalog essay contributed by Rui Torres, professor of digital art at the University Fernando Pessoa in Porto and current secretary and member of the Board of Directors of the ELO-Electronic Literature Organization (https://eliterature.org/). Well-illustrated and elegantly designed, this book offers a small but attractive selection of two archives specialized in avant-garde writing as published in magazines during the 1960s and 1970s (the Arquivo Fernando Aguiar in Lisbon and the Coleção Moraes-Barbosa in São Paulo), with the work of more than 400 Lusophone and international artists and contributors on display. It also helps raise fundamental questions on the place of so-called peripheral countries, cultures,...