Begoña Farré Torras (9E19-895D-18F0)

Curriculum Vitae

Begoña Farré Torras

Begoña Farré Torras (PhD 2020) is a CEEC-FCT researcher and Board member at Instituto de História da Arte, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where she coordinates the research group Art Theory, Historiography and Criticism. Her research focuses on 20th century muralism from a transnational perspective that examines mural theory, practice and politics in Portugal and Spain, and their links with muralism in Latin America and elsewhere in Europe. She has developed this line of research as a member of two interrelated funded projects - Southern Modernisms EXPL/CPC-HAT/0191/2013 (2014-2015), followed by PIM: Iberian Modernisms and the Primitivist Imaginary PTDC/ART-HIS/29837/2017, (2018-2022), - resulting in several journal articles, book chapters, catalogue texts and conference presentations including, most recently, a contribution to the edited volume The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms, eds. Joana Cunha Leal and Mariana Pinto dos Santos, Routledge (2024). As the co-PI of the seed project Ventos e Casamentos: Obras de Artistas Espanhóis em Portugal na Primeira Metade do Século XX, Torras co-supervised an MA dissertation on the Spanish artist Daniel Vázquez Díaz (1882-1962) with a particular focus on the political dimension of his 1930 mural programme for the Arrabida Monastery in Huelva, Spain. Torras´ latest research explores the possibilities and challenges of using digital technologies for preserving and exhibiting modern mural heritage, and for engaging non-academic audiences in its study and public discussion. She has presented papers on these subjects at the 27th Annual Conference for Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts - Performing Cultural Heritage in the Digital Present, Turin, 2023, and at the 4th National Meeting of IN2PAST Researchers, Lisbon, 2024. Torras is a member of the RIHA Journal editorial team for Portugal since 2014. From this position she set up a training programme in 2022 that gives PhD students the chance to develop their own writing and editorial skills through supervised, hands-on involvement in the entire editorial process, from manuscript submission and peer review to final copy editing.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Begoña Farré Torras

Citation names

Torras, Begoña Farré

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 9E19-895D-18F0
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3700-135X

Email addresses

begonatorras@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
begonatorras@fcsh.unl.pt (Personal)

Websites

https://institutodehistoriadaarte.com/artthc/6055-2/ (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Arts - Art history

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Catalan	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Proficiency (C2)	Beginner (A1)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
German	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2015/05/01 - 2020/05/12 Concluded	História da Arte (Doutoramento) Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal "The Medieval in Modernism: Cathedrals, Stained Glass, and Constructive Painting in Joaquín Torres-García and in the European Avant-Garde. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Muito Bom
2011 - 2014 Concluded	História da Arte - Especialidade H. da Arte Medieval (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal "Brotherly Love and Filial Obedience: The Commemorative Programme of the Avis Princes at Santa Maria da Vitória, Batalha http://hdl.handle.net/10362/13627" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	19
2008 - 2011 Concluded	História da Arte (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal	18
1986 - 1990 Concluded	Tradução (Bacharelato) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain	n.a.

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/07/01 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Historia da Arte, Portugal
2014/07 - 2015/03	Researcher (Research)	Instituto de História da Arte, Fac. de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, UNL, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
1994 - 2006	Financial Controller & Office Manager	Summercove Ltd. t/as MGLW, United Kingdom

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022/10/01 - 2023/03/31	Ventos e Casamentos: obras de artistas espanhóis em Portugal na primeira metade do século XX National Funding under FCT I.P. UIDB/00417/2020 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Historia da Arte, Portugal	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Historia da Arte Concluded
2018/09/01 - 2022/08/31	PIM: Iberian modernisms and the primitivist imaginary PTDC/ART-HIS/29837/2017 Post-doc Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2014/03 - 2015/02	Southern Modernisms EXPL/CPC-HAT/0191/2013 PhD Student Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Historia da Arte, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2025/01/01 - 2026/06/30	Mural in Motion. Lime, Pigments, and Pixels - Bringing Modern Mural Heritage Back to Public Life: A Critical Approach to Computational and Digital Tools for Art Historical Curatorship 2023.11110.PEX 10.54499/2023.11110.PEX Principal investigator Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Universidad de Málaga, Spain Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal Reial Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi, Spain	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Torras, Begoña Farré. "Primitivising the Mural Either Side of the Atlantic: Discourse and Contingency in Joaquín Torres-García's Murals". In The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms, edited by Cunha Leal, Joana; Mariana de Lemos Pinto dos Santos, 65-83. Abingdon-on-Thames, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2023. Published Torras, Begoña Farré. "El concepte de primitivisme en l'art català de la dècada de 1910". In Celso Lagar i Hortense Bégué - Els anys catalans (1915-1918) (exh. cat.), edited by Maria Lluïsa Faxedas, 72-75. Girona, Spain: Museu d'Art de Girona, 2021. Published Begoña Farré Torras. "El concepte del primitivisme en l'art català dels anys 10". edited by Faxedas Lluisa, 72-75. Museu d'Art de Girona, 2021. Begoña Farré Torras. "Noucentisme, pintura mural i debats de l'art modern a Europa". edited by Falg{\`a, 105-119. Documenta Universitaria, 2020. Torras, Begoña Farré. "Pinturas murais para o Diário de Notícias". In José de Almada Negreiros: uma maneira de ser moderno (exh. cat.), edited by Santos, Mariana Pinto dos, 222-223. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2017. Published Torras, Begoña Farré. "Vitrais para a Igreja de Nossa Senhora de Fátima". In José de Almada Negreiros: uma maneira de ser moderno (exh. cat.), edited by Santos, Mariana Pinto dos, 251-252. Lisbon, Portugal: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2017. Published Mariana de Lemos Pinto dos Santos; Begoña Farré Torras. "Desenhos incisos para Cidade Universitária, 1956-1961". edited by {Pinto dos Santos, 238-239. Funda{\c c, 2017.
Edited book	Torras, Begoña Farré. Southern Modernisms: From A to Z and Back Again. Porto e Lisboa, Portugal: Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo - CESAP-ESAP; Instituto de História da Arte - FCSH-UNL. 2015. Published • Editor
Journal article	Begoña Farré Torras. "The Mediterranean as the Primitive Source for Noucentisme: Joaquín Torres-García's 'classical primitivism' - from Arcadian frescoes to Constructive Universalism". Artl@s Bulletin 10 2 (2021): 61-70. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas/vol10/iss2/5/. Open access • Published Begoña Farré Torras. "(No) Laughing Matter: Modernism and Xavier Nogués’ Cartoons". RIHA Journal 134 (2016): online-online. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/8d48b5ba-cc52-4a4f-892a-d33436222485 https://doi.org/10.11588/riha.2016.1.70201. Open access Torras, Begoña Farré. "Four princes, one monument, one perfect king: The 15th century pantheon of an idealized royal family in the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória, Batalha, Portugal". Portuguese Studies Review - Trent University 22 1 (2014): 77-96. https://www.academia.edu/8524944/Four_Princes_One_Monument_One_Perfect_King_The_Fifteenth_Century_Pantheon_of_an_Idealized_Royal_Family_in_the_Monastery_of_Santa_Maria_da_Vit%C3%B3ria_Batalha_Portugal. Published Begoña Farré Torras. "Do apóstolo ao peregrino: a iconografia de São Tiago na escultura devocional medieval em Portugal". Revista Medievalista 1 12 (2012): 1-34. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/f2cc9713-829b-43c0-a551-c0d694f4e431.
Journal issue	Cunha Leal, Joana; Pinto dos Santos, Mariana; Torras, Begoña Farré. "Life in the Periphery". Revista de História da Arte - Série W 9 (2021): In press • Coeditor Joana Cunhal Leal; Torras, Begoña Farré. "Southern Modernisms. Critical Stances through Regional Appropriations". RIHA Journal 0131-0140 (2016): https://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2016/0131-0140-special-issue-southern-modernisms. Published • Coeditor

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/02/01	Património mural, acessibilidade digital e co-criação de discurso expositivo: os frescos portuenses de Dordio Gomes / Mural heritage, digital accessibility and the co-creation of an exhibition discourse: Dordio Gomes' frescoes in Porto	4th National Meeting of IN2PAST Researchers IN2PAST Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/09/12	The modernist mural in Europe: an untold story _ digital curatorship challenges and opportunities	DRHA2023 - Performing Cultural Heritage in the Digital Present Università di Torino (Turim, Italy)
2022/05/26	The 'primitive' mural: Spain and Mexico, post-colonial convergences and divergences	The trouble with “primitivism”. Uses of the past in iberian ¿and transatlantic modernisms Instituto de História da Arte - NOVA FCSH (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/05/20	Transnational debates and local production: Barcelona's mural scene in the 1910s - canons and transgressions	Face au mur: la décoration murale en France (1870-1945) Institut national de l'histoire de l'art (Paris, France)
2020/10/12	Primitivism in Mural Painting - Mural Painting as Primitivism: Joaquín Torres-García and Joan Miró	Iberian Modernisms and the Primitivist Imaginary - Midway Workshop Instituto de História da Arte, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/10/10	The Mediterranean as the Primitive Source for Noucentisme	La Méditerranée des artistes. Une modernité critique 1880-1945. FORTH Institute for Mediterranean Studies (Rethymno, Greece)
2017/03/23	Noucentisme, pintura mural, i debats de l'art modern a Europa	Noucentismes: el Noucentisme català en el context cultural europeu Universitat de Girona (Girona, Spain)
2015/02/20	(No) Laughing Matter: Noucentisme, Modernism and Xavier Nogués' Cartoons	Southern Modernisms: Critical Stances through Regional Appropriations, 19-21 February 2015 Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo, ESAP (Porto, Portugal)
2014	Meios de representação pessoal no século XV: a emblemática dos Infantes na Capela do Fundador	O fascínio do fim: estudos de arte tardo-medieval em homenagem ao Prof. José Custódio Vieira da Silva Instituto de História da Arte, FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Artis, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013	Four princes, one monument, one perfect king. The funerary programme of the Avis princes at the Monastery of Batalha	Portugal Inside and Out: Université de Montréal (Montréal, Canada)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/10/01 - 2023/10/01	Daniel Vázquez Díaz (1882-1969): diálogos com Portugal na primeira metade do século XX Co-supervisor	Art History (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2018/08/31	O poder da cor na idade média: policromia na capela do fundador do Mosteiro da Batalha Co-supervisor	História da Arte (Master) Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2020/06/01 - 2022/09/03	EAM 2022 - Globalising the Avant-Garde, 8th International Conference of the European Network for Modernism and Avant-Garde Studies (2021 - 2022/09/03) Congress (Member of the Scientific Committee)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Historia da Arte, Portugal
2015/01/01 - 2015/11/21	Avant-garde Migrations International Conference (2015/11/19 - 2015/11/21) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	Instituto de História da Arte, Fac. de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, UNL, Portugal Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2014/06/19 - 2014/10/31	Southern Modernisms: Critical Stances Through Regional Appropriations (2015/02/19 - 2015/02/21) Congress (Member of the Scientific Committee)	Escola Superior Artística do Porto Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo, Portugal Instituto de História da Arte, Fac. de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, UNL, Portugal
2012/01/01 - 2012/11/21	IV APHA Conference on Portuguese Art History (2012/11/19 - 2012/11/21) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	APHA Associação Portuguesa de Historiadores da Arte, Portugal

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2014/01/01 - Current	Lead editor at Local Editorial Board (Portugal) for RIHA Journal (https://www.riha-journal.org/) - Selection of articles for peer review and management of the review and editing process. Member	International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art, Germany Instituto de História da Arte, Fac. de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, UNL, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2021/09/01 - 2022/09/01	EAM 2022 - Globalising the Avant-Garde, 8th International Conference of the European Network for Modernism and Avant-Garde Studies	Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2023/09/22 - 2023/11/20	Evaluation of proposals to 2023 Call for Post-Doctoral Fellowships at Instituto de História da Arte Evaluator	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Historia da Arte, Portugal	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Historia da Arte

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2022/01/01 - Current	RIHA Journal Editorial Training for PhD Students	Inês Silvestre; Petra Sarin; Giorgia Casara

Distinctions

Other distinction

2012	Prémio de Mérito e Excelência Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2011	Estudante de Mérito Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2010	Estudante de Mérito Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal