silêncio nas páginas de Novas Cartas Portuguesas (Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta e Maria Velho da Costa) e na imagética monocromática de Helena Almeida – uma perspetiva interdisciplinar

THE SILENCE IN THE PAGES OF NEW PORTUGUESE LETTERS (MARIA ISABEL BARRENO, MARIA TERESA HORTA AND MARIA VELHO DA COSTA) AND IN THE MONOCHROMATIC IMAGERY OF HELENA ALMEIDA – AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE It is with greatest expression that, in the 1970s, the Portuguese female authors begin to claim a social space and a voice of their own, mostly through literature but also, even though more occasionally, in the field of visual arts. Dancing and creating from and around silence, they try to break free from it in order to broaden the horizons of a feminine worldview – and at the forefront of this cultural battle cannot go unnoticed names like Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Velho da Costa (the Three Marys) or Helena Almeida, stretching the threads of the ball that would allow them to get to the weaving of a new collective discourse and to participate in it with a relevant and compelling originality.