%0 Journal Article
%T Art and politics in the former "Portuguese Colonial Empire". The monument to Mouzinho de Albuquerque in Louren o Marques
%A Verheij
%A Gerbert
%J RIHA Journal
%D 2013
%I 
%X In 1940, a monument to Mouzinho de Albuquerque is inaugurated in the former capital of the Portuguese Colony of Mozambique, Louren o Marques. The result of a lenghty commissioning process, this homage to one of the main heroes of the colonial pantheon becomes a center-piece in the many political rituals which had become common-place during the 1930s. The concepts of aura and cult value are used to analyse its "traditionalist" aesthetics and the role it played in political spectacles, arguing that it obeys a strategy of representation of the public space as "Empire".
%K Public sculpture
%K Mozambique
%K Louren o Marque
%K Monument to Mouzinho de Albuquerque
%K Estado Novo
%U http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2013/2013-jan-mar/verheij-mouzinho-monument-marques