"Baroque New Worlds" traces the changing nature of Baroque
representation in Europe and the Americas across four centuries,
from its seventeenth-century origins as a Catholic and monarchical
aesthetic and ideology to its contemporary function as a
postcolonial ideology aimed at disrupting entrenched power
structures and perceptual categories. Baroque forms are exuberant,
ample, dynamic, and porous, and in the regions colonized by
Catholic Europe, the Baroque was itself eventually colonized. In
the New World, its transplants immediately began to reflect the
cultural perspectives and iconographies of the indigenous and
African artisans who built and decorated Catholic structures, and
Europe's own cultural products were radically altered in turn.
Today, under the rubric of the Neobaroque, this transculturated
Baroque continues to impel artistic expression in literature, the
visual arts, architecture, and popular entertainment worldwide.
Since Neobaroque reconstitutions necessarily reference the
European Baroque, this volume begins with the reevaluation of the
Baroque that evolved in Europe during the late nineteenth century
and the early twentieth. Foundational essays by Friedrich
Nietzsche, Heinrich Wolfflin, Walter Benjamin, Eugenio d'Ors, Rene
Wellek, and Mario Praz recuperate and redefine the historical
Baroque. Their essays lay the groundwork for the revisionist Latin
American essays, many of which have not been translated into
English until now. Authors including Alejo Carpentier, Jose Lezama
Lima, Severo Sarduy, edouard Glissant, Haroldo de Campos, and
Carlos Fuentes understand the New World Baroque and Neobaroque as
decolonizing strategies in Latin America and other postcolonial
contexts. This collection moves between art history and literary
criticism to provide a rich interdisciplinary discussion of the
transcultural forms and functions of the Baroque.
Contributors. Dorothy Z. Baker, Walter Benjamin, Christine
Buci-Glucksmann, Jose Pascual Buxo, Leo Cabranes-Grant, Haroldo de
Campos, Alejo Carpentier, Irlemar Chiampi, William Childers,
Gonzalo Celorio, Eugenio d'Ors, Jorge Ruedas de la Serna, Carlos
Fuentes, edouard Glissant, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, angel
Guido, Monika Kaup, Jose Lezama Lima, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mario
Praz, Timothy J. Reiss, Alfonso Reyes, Severo Sarduy, Pedro
Henriquez Urena, Maarten van Delden, Rene Wellek, Christopher
Winks, Heinrich Wolfflin, Lois Parkinson Zamora
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