Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro: imagens e memórias de teatro. Coleção arte e artistas.

Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional / Câmara Municipal de Lisboa / Museu Bordalo Pinheiro, 2013.. FIRST EDITION. Large 4° (24.3 x 28.1 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. As new. 429 pp. (1 blank l.), profusely illustrated in color, bibliography. One of 1000 copies. *** FIRST and only published EDITION. Based on the author's doctoral thesis, defended at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, in 2009. Following the conclusion of the main text, there are short biographies of often cited or mentioned individuals, with specific reference to the caricatures or images discussed by the author. What is principally explored are theatrical representation of individuals in Portugal, as well as caricatures of actors and prominent persons on the political "stage" at the time drawn by Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro. Other aspects that are developed related to the caricatures are historical considerations of caricature, and interesting accounts of what Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro may have been exploiting in different drawings that might not be apparent to a modern reader. Bordalo Pinheiro (1836-1905) was if not the greatest, one of Portugal's greatest caricaturists, and one of the best of any nation ever. *** See Pamplona, Dicionário de pintores e escultores portugueses [1987-88] I, 223-27.