MAAT x Belém Library: Word of Art
MAAT and the Belém Library are launching a joint initiative to promote reading and bring communities of readers closer to the museum's exhibitions.
Each month, there will be reading suggestions made by artists and curators for MAAT's exhibitions. The Belém Library will make the respective books available to be borrowed, thus expanding the themes covered by the museum's program.
Several artists and curators select between 2 and 3 books that encourage and complement the visit to MAAT's exhibitions. In addition to online communication, the reading suggestions will be announced on the poster at the entrance to the Library.
February
Choises of João Pinharanda and Camila Maissune, Black Ancient Futures exhibition curators
Édouard Gllissant, Poetics of Relation
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Esse Cabelo
March
Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Italian Journey
April
Herberto Hélder, Ou o Poema Contínuo
Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way (Book 1).
May
Juan Marsé, Last Evenings With Teresa
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Franz Kafka, Die Sorge des Hausvaters
June
Gilles Deleuze e Felix Guattari, What is Philosophy?
René Daumal, Mount Analogue
Manuel Zimbro, Torrões de Terra
Philip Pullman, Northern Lights
On the necessity of gardening an ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation
Janina Ramirez, A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It Janina Ramirez
July
Selection by the artist Miriam Cahn:
Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalém
August
Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Adília Lopes, Dobra
Nuno Bragança, A noite e o Riso
Isabel da Nóbrega, Viver com os Outros
José Saramago, The Elephant’s Journey
Ruben A., Silêncio para 4
Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo
José Tolentino, O Centro da Terra
October
Kate Crawford, Atlas da IA: poder, política e os custos planetários da inteligência artificial
Michel Foucault, As Palavras e as Coisas - Uma Arqueologia das Ciências Humanas
Carlo Rovelli, A Ordem do Tempo
November
Exiles – Testimonies of Portuguese Exiles and Deserters in Europe (1961-1974), Associação de Exilados Políticos Portugueses
Exiles 2 – Testimonies of Portuguese Exiles and Deserters (1961-1974), Associação de Exilados Políticos Portugueses
Gérald Bloncourt, For a Better Life – The Gaze of Gérald Bloncourt,
Victor Pereira, The Salazar Dictatorship and Emigration: The Portuguese State and Its Emigrants in France (1957-1974)
December
Ian Hamilton, Fifty Poems
Ian Hamilton, The Persecutor