This Work is also available in Portuguese version.
This book presents a selection of 100 works from CAMs collection. Collections should express a personality of their own, while also allowing renewed readings and multiple curatorial visions, a fact to which this book bears witness. While it is true that no collection can represent on its own the art produced in a particular period, this collection constitutes the most systematic representation of 20th century Portuguese art, and regarding the first half of the century, perhaps the only comprehensive group of works accessible to the public. Without doubt, this is CAMs prime responsibility: to preserve and investigate the artistic heritage it keeps and to make it accessible to the greatest possible number of people. CAMs mission also involves developing and renewing this collection, to which it needs to establish an attentive and informed proximity to the contemporary art world. In fact, this connection, which is also required for the
