The universal Baroque / Peter Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, Peter, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern.

Civilization, Baroque.

Great Britain--Civilization.

Great Britain.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xv, 208 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Considering the word 'Baroque' 1

Definitions of Baroque 12

I British Baroque 25

The Baroque in England 26

Baroque in English vernacular literature 51

Resistance 65

Irish Baroque 66

Scottish Baroque 74

II Hybridity; mestizaje; cultural bilinguality 94

Baroque traffic: feather cloaks and magic lanterns 94

Symbolic and emblematic readings of the plants of the New World 96

Representations of peoples of the Americas 105

Hybrid festivals in Mexico: the elegies of Ixtlilxochitl 106

Popular festivals at San Gregorio and Sucre 112

Mexico City: the viceregal entry of 1680 114

Jesuit painting in the Far East 117

Visual arts in Ibero-America: arquebusier angels 123

Sculptures of the Guarani 128

Hybrid arts of New France; obsidian nativity; Christmas at Macao 131

III The shape of the baroque world: learning the Baroque 140

Music in New France and New Spain 143

Scotland: praise-poetry and hybrid music 150

Irish music 156

Architectural projects: the Chearnley circle and the Earl of Mar 157

The flaming heart: baroque education 166

Orthodox Baroque: Kiev and Karlovci 171

The flaming heart: the hearts of the saints 177

The flaming heart: revolutionaries and antiquarians 179

A Jacobite memorial object 180

Conclusion: a map of the baroque world 182

Giardini Buonaccorsi 189

The opera of San Francisco Xavier 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719075728

0719075726

OCLC:

191751832