Video documenting section extra (now no 10) of the physical exhibition, open to the public in 2019.

Cover of the book Situações, faces & formas. Desenhos 1965-1978 [Situations, faces & shapes. Drawings 1965-1978], by Vasco [de Castro], Lisbon, Cultarte Editora, 1978 [DCA JAR].

Cover of the book Vida e obra exemplares de Fernando Pessoa [The exemplary life and work of Fernando Pessoa], by Vasco [de Castro], Lisbon, publisher José A. Ribeiro, 1985 [DCA JAR].

Two photos of a launch session of a book by Vasco de Castro (s.a., no place, undated) [Esp. JAR].

The cartoonist Vasco de Castro linked himself with Ulmeiro in the 1970s-90s through two important works. The first was Situações, faces & formas. Desenhos 1965-1978 [Situations, faces & shapes. Drawings 1965-1978], in which he reviewed his work as a draughtsman in exile and during the revolutionary phase and signified a turn towards a more expressionist approach. It had a 1st edition in 4/1978 by Cultarte Editora, a publisher from the universe of Ulmeiro, with a print run of 2500 copies. A 2nd edition was produced by Ulmeiro in the 1990s. The second book by Vasco was Vida e obra exemplares de Fernando Pessoa [Exemplary life and work of Fernando Pessoa], a catalogue of the homonymous exhibition, published by JAR but with Ulmeiro's logo, in a print-run of 4200 copies. There were also occasional collaborations, such as a caricature of Pessoa that appeared in an Ulmeiro journal in 1985 (see below).

Page 1 of Ulmeiro jornal, no. 5, 4/1985, reproducing a cartoon by Vasco de Castro allusive to the Lisbon Book Fair of 1985 [BNP].

Photo of António Pimentel, s.a., undated, [Casa Amarela 5B - Online Journal].

Born in 1935, in Condeixa-a-Nova, António Pimentel had as masters Carlos Ramos (painting) and Mário Oliveira Soares (ceramics). In 1956 he participated in the 1.º Salão de Artes Plásticas dos Novos de Coimbra [1st Saloon of Visual Arts of the Coimbra New Ones], signing his first works as Tòpi. The following year he held there his 1st individual exhibition, in the gallery of O Primeiro de Janeiro, introduced by Manuel Deniz Jacinto. He then co-founded the Círculo de Artes Plásticas [Visual Arts Circle] (in the Associação Académica de Coimbra [Academic Association of Coimbra]), which would be directed by the Brazilian modernist painter Waldemar da Costa. Among other works, he executed at that time a series of woodcuts for the university film club. In 1959, he painted the murals of the Instituto Maternal de Coimbra [Maternal Institute of Coimbra], at the invitation of Bissaya Barreto. In Lisbon, to where he moved in 1960, he worked in cinema and advertising, at ETP, with Alves Redol, Ary dos Santos, Câmara Leme, Cipriano Dourado, Luís Sttau Monteiro and Orlando da Costa. He then exhibited in important galleries, did the cover for the 1st José Afonso LP, Baladas e canções [Ballads and Songs] (1964) and became a member of the Gravura cooperative. Soon afterwards, and until 1974, he self-exiled in Rio de Janeiro, Paris and London, where he exhibited several works, particularly engravings. He returned to Portugal with the Carnation Revolution, having taken up advertising again, at Espiral, with Ary dos Santos. In parallel, he started a prolific career as an illustrator for some authors (Ary dos Santos, Lília da Fonseca and Soledade Martinho Costa), for the humorous weekly publication O Bisnau (in 1983/4, directed by Afonso Praça and with Tóssan at his side) and for publishers (Rolim, Ulmeiro, Vega, etc.), besides commissions for the State, especially paintings for the TLP and CTT commemorative stamps. Between 1984 and 1986 António Pimentel developed a prolix and quality work in Ulmeiro, having therefore become one of the main illustrators of this publishing house. Beside is featured a sample of this production, which mainly concerned the collection Imagem do Corpo [Image of the Body], giving it a strong visual identity. From 1985 onwards he concentrated on his passion, painting, setting up a studio in Alcabideque. His last exhibitions date from 1997, at the Coimbra Cultural House and at the Municipal Museum Dr. Santos Rocha (Figueira da Foz). He died on 24/IV/1998.

Photomontage of 7 book covers published by Ulmeiro and illustrated by António Pimentel [DCA JAR]:

►Histórias do tempo da outra senhora, by José Viale Moutinho (2nd revised ed., 1985); ►A pulso o horizonte, de Lia Viegas (1985); ►Mulher sentada no silêncio, by Maria Graciete Besse (1986); ►Villa Celeste: novela ingénua, by Hélia Correia (1985); ►O separar das águas, by Hélia Correia (1986); ►Palavras sem voz, by Vasco Branco (1985); ►A mar te, by Lena d'Água (1984).

Cover and illustrations from pages 1, 82, 115, 151 and 158 of the book Poemografias [Poemgraphies], org. by Fernando Aguiar and Silvestre Pestana, Ulmeiro, 1986 [DCA JAR].

Poemografias has become a reference work for experimental poetry, containing works by Abílio, Alberto Pimenta, Ana Hatherly, Antero de Alda, António Aragão, António Barros, E. M. de Mello e Castro, Egídio Álvaro, Fernando Aguiar, Jorge Lima Barreto (Telectu), José-Alberto Marques, Salette Tavares and Silvestre Pestana. This relevance was recently highlighted by one of its organisers, Fernando Aguiar: “The book «POEMOGRAFIAS», despite being more than 20 years old is, yet still, the most recent collective publication of Portuguese experimental poets. After that book I organized some anthologies of Portuguese visual poetry, but only with poems, while «POEMOGRAFIAS» has a theoretical perspective of each poet, besides the visual poems” (transcription of an excerpt from an interview to Jorge Luiz Antonio in Contrapontos, vol. 10, no. 3, 2010, p. 358)

Cover and pages 24 and 25 of no. 3 of the magazine Sobreviver [To Survive], 2nd series, including photos of participants and performances at the exhibition «Poesia Experimental Portuguesa» [«Portuguese Experimental Poetry»] (Coimbra, CAPC Gallery - Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra / Coimbra Visual Arts Circle, 1985) and in the launching of the book Poemografias [Poemgraphies], organized by Fernando Aguiar and Silvestre Pestana (Lisbon, 1986).

Cover of the book Metamorfoses do video [Video metamorfoses], by Alberto Pimenta (Lisbon, José Ribeiro editor, 1986, cover s.a.), [DCA JAR].

Cover of the no. 6 of the magazine Sobreviver, 2nd series, 5-6/1986, with the visual poem “Balada piramidal dos patos bravos” ["Pyramidal ballad of wild ducks"], by Alberto Pimenta [DCA DM].

Pages 18 and 20 of no. 6 of the magazine Sobreviver, 2nd series, 5-6/1986, with an interview and photographs of Alberto Pimenta at the launch session of his book Metamorfoses do video (Lisbon, 1986), [DCA DM].

Alberto Pimenta was one of the poets linked to experimental poetry who continued to collaborate with Ulmeiro, which published in that same year of 1986 a book by him, Metamorfoses do video [Metamorphoses of video], whose public launch was complemented by a new artistic performance.

Front and back cover of the leaflet Manifesto sobre política energética: por um debate nacional sobre a opção nuclear [Manifesto on energy policy: for a national debate on the nuclear option] (AAVV, Ulmeiro, 1978, illustr. by João Abel Manta), [DCA JAR].

The illustrations by João Abel Manta for this anti-nuclear manifesto which Ulmeiro disseminated are an unusual work in the framework of the author's production at that time, but maintaining the quality that established him as one of the greatest Portuguese cartoonists of all time. Although based on the same illustration, they have a different message: one accentuates the environmental combat dimension, the other centres on the fight against the United States of America imperialism, a country then denounced by many environmentalists as the main promoter of nuclear energy, but Manta's allusion has a broader mark, evoking other past activism, such as that against the Vietnam war.

3 books covers by Ulmeiro illustrated by women artists [DCA JAR]:

►Nuvens, no vale, of José-Alberto Marques, 1985, by Carmen; ►Bicho de sede, of Manuel Cintra, 1986, by Cristina Reis; ►As incontáveis vésperas, of Wanda Ramos, 1984, by Wanda Ramos.

The feminine affirmation in the democratic Portugal was not only seen in literary creation but also in the artistic one. In line with this impetus, Ulmeiro gave visibility to the work of a significant body of new female artists through their illustrations and graphic arrangements for many of the publisher's books. Above are only shown 3 covers by women illustrators as several others have been presented in various sections of this exhibition, especially in section 7. The artisanal character of Ulmeiro – evident in its attachment to the bookseller-publisher workman-craftsman profile, in the modest business structure with an associative tendency, in the graphic arrangements irregularity, in relatively limited print-runs, in the existence of many unconsolidated collections, etc. – will have limited its resilience capacity, resulting in less business robustness in situations of strong competition and/or market deregulation.