Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0292753098 ISBN 13: 9780292753099

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2014

Synopsis

Over the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries—the period designated as the Baroque—new cultural forms sprang from the cross-fertilization of Spanish, Amerindian, and African traditions. This dynamism of motion, relocation, and mutation changed things not only in Spanish America, but also in Spain, creating a transatlantic Hispanic world with new understandings of personhood, place, foodstuffs, music, animals, ownership, money and objects of value, beauty, human nature, divinity and the sacred, cultural proclivities—a whole lexikon of things in motion, variation, and relation to one another.

Featuring the most creative thinking by the foremost scholars across a number of disciplines, the Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque is a uniquely wide-ranging and sustained exploration of the profound cultural transfers and transformations that define the transatlantic Spanish world in the Baroque era. Pairs of authors—one treating the peninsular Spanish kingdoms, the other those of the Americas—provocatively investigate over forty key concepts, ranging from material objects to metaphysical notions. Illuminating difference as much as complementarity, departure as much as continuity, the book captures a dynamic universe of meanings in the various midst of its own re-creations. The Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque joins leading work in a number of intersecting fields and will fire new research—it is the indispensible starting point for all serious scholars of the early modern Spanish world.

About this title

About the Author:

Evonne Levy, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Toronto, is concerned with the art, architecture, and historiography of the Baroque worldwide.

Kenneth Mills, J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of History at the University of Michigan, is an anthropological historian of religious and cultural transformation and re-creation in the early modern Spanish world.

Review:

"Anyone interested in the increasing number of global museum exhibits revisiting Spanish colonial art and its significance in history ought to seek guidance in this volume first." - Pasatiempo

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0292753098
• ISBN 13: 9780292753099
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Levy Evonne, Mills Kenneth