This book centres on four Portuguese artists' journeys between Portugal and Britain and aims at rethinking the cultural and artistic interactions in the post-war Europe, the shaping of new identities within a context of creative experimentalism and transnational dynamics and the artistic responses to political troubles.

Leonor de Oliveira is an integrated researcher from the Institute of Art History, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK.

Introduction: Britain and Portugal - Universalism and Modernity at the Crossroads of the Mid-Twentieth Century 1. Images of Resistance: Artistic Apprenticeship and Experimentalism at the Slade School 2. Expressions of Contemporaneity: Dealing with Dictatorship and Colonialism in the Post-War Period 3. Travelling Images: Exposing Identity on the International Stage 4. Collective Imagery: A New Iconography for New Generations Conclusion