The Ibero-American Baroque

The Ibero-American Baroque
Beatriz de Alba-Koch
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4 Mar 2022 CAN
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9781442648838
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The Ibero-American Baroque is an interdisciplinary, empirically-grounded contribution to the understanding of cultural exchanges in the early modern Iberian world. The Baroque was the first truly global culture. The Ibero-American Baroque illuminates its dissemination, dynamism, and transformation during the early modern period on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection of original essays focuses on the media, institutions, and technologies that were central to cultural exchanges in a broad early modern Iberian world, brought into being in the aftermath of the Spanish and Portuguese arrivals in the Americas. Focusing on the period from 1600 to 1825, these essays explore early modern Iberian architecture, painting, sculpture, music, sermons, reliquaries, processions, emblems, and dreams, shedding light on the Baroque as a historical moment of far-reaching and long-lasting importance. Anchored in extensive, empirical research that provides evidence for understanding how the Baroque became globalised, The Ibero-American Baroque showcases the ways in which the Baroque has continued to define Latin American identities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
This inspiring book gives the reader a challenging vision of globalization, because it looks for it from the Americas and through religious art. Intense, bright, and spectacular, the Baroque was conceived to amaze individuals, but at the same time it was forging a global Ibero-America as part of the new world order. In this book we have globalization beyond economics. - Joao Paulo Oliveira e Costa, Professor of History, NOVA University Lisbon This thoughtful and provocative volume of essays bathes light on little-studied aspects of the Baroque after its transit to the Spanish Americas. In Europe, the Baroque as an aesthetic, as a set of practices, and as a visual cultural revelation finds its conclusion in the eighteenth century, whereas the phenomenon continues into Latin America' s present. The Neo-Baroque defines a signature element of contemporary Latin American identity that chafes against any assessment of the Baroque as belonging to the past when it thrives before our eyes today. This book offers valuable and original insights into what Beatriz de Alba-Koch calls ' the first global culture, ' and will make an excellent contribution to future scholarship. - Lauren Beck, Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter and Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, Mount Allison University
Beatriz de Alba-Koch is an associate professor of History and director of Latin American Studies at the University of Victoria.
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ISBN-13: 9781442648838
Published: 4 Mar 2022
Published In: Canada
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
Pages: 354

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