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The Ibero-American Baroque

Edited by Beatriz de Alba-Koch

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Published: February 2022

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Imprint: University of Toronto Press

Series: Series: Toronto Iberic

Page Count: 354 Pages

Illustrations: 59 colour illustrations, 28 b&w illustrations

Dimensions: 6.30 x 9.25

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ISBN: 9781442648838

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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 globalized, 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.

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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Introduction: The Ibero-American Baroque as the First Global Culture
Beatriz de Alba-Koch

Part 1. Painting, Sculpture, and Other Arts

1. Transfers, Encounters, Innovations: The Church of the Third Order of Saint Francis of Penance in Ouro Preto
Luís de Moura Sobral

2. The Elevation of the Genre of “Shrine Paintings” in Peru
Evonne Levy

3. Baroque Reliquaries and Automatons as Representations of Eternal Life
Enrique Fernández

4. Marian Sculpture in Baroque Portuguese America
Maria Beatriz de Mello e Souza

Part 2. Architecture

5. Presence and Absence: The Holy House of Loreto in Ibero-America
Clara Bargellini

6. From Intimate to Infinite Presence: The Camarín at Tepotzotlán
Ricardo Castro

7. Passion in Motion: The Way of the Cross as Performance in New Spain
Alena Robin

Part 3. Music

8. Music in Processions at the Jesuit Reducciones of Moxos and Chiquitos in Bolivia
Piotr Nawrot

9. Neapolitan Technology and Galant Style in a Novohispano Context: Eight Concerted Responsories by Ignacio Jerusalem
Lucero Enríquez Rubio

10. The Resonance of Sor Juana’s Villancicos in Spanish Cathedral Archives
Aurelio Tello

Part 4. Textual Continuities and Change

11. Emblems and Wit in the Hispanic Baroque according to Baltasar Gracián
Pablo Restrepo-Gautier

12. The Baroque as Paradox: Novelty and Printed Courtly Sermons in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century New Spain
Perla Chinchilla Pawling

13. The Literary Dream in Querétaro: A Baroque Genre and Enlightenment Ideals in New Spain
Beatriz de Alba-Koch

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Contributors

"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

"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."
João Paulo Oliveira e Costa, Professor of History, NOVA University Lisbon

Art / Art History

Literary Studies / Hispanic Literature

History / Hispanic History

History / European History

Hispanic Studies / Hispanic History