Andalucia : a cultural history / John Gill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gill, John (John Joseph), author.

Series:

Landscapes of the imagination.

Landscapes of the Imagination

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Andalusia (Spain)--History.

Andalusia (Spain).

Andalusia (Spain)--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Garden of Earthly Delights Part One: Iberia: From Prehistory to the Visigoths 1. Gardens of Stone 2. Tartessos 3. La Dama de Baza (Deities of Death) 4. Gadir/Cadiz 5. The Heavenly Cities of Baetica 6. Vandalucia Part Two: Al-Andalus: From Invasion to the Fall of Granada 7. Tariq's Rock 8. The Blackbird of Baghdad 9. Taming a Wilderness 10. The Library of Babel 11. Two Gentlemen of Cordoba Parr Three: Espana: From Reconquest to the Twenty-First Century 12. 1492 13. Taking the Garden Indoors 14. Nights in the Gardens of Spain 15

Contents:

CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction: THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS: EXCAVATING THE PAST IN ANDALUCÍA; Beyond the Border; Landscape in Motion; Part One: IBERIA: FROM PREHISTORY TO THE VISIGOTHS; Chapter One: GARDENS OF STONES: CAVES AND CAVE DWELLERS; The First Europeans; Early Cave Dwellers in Andalucía; The Cueva de la Pileta's Almanac; The Beaker People Sites of Almería; Chapter Two: TARTESSOS: LAND OF IVORY,APES AND PEACOCKS; Tartessos-qua-Atlantis; Chapter Three: LA DAMA DE BAZA: DEITIES OF LIFE AND DEATH; La Dama de Elche; La Dama del Cerro de los Santos

Rituals of Life and DeathChapter Four: GADIR/CÁDIZ: FIRST CITY IN EUROPE; An Archipelago That Became a City; Cádiz after the "Reconquest"; Chapter Five: THE HEAVENLY CITIES OF BAETICA: ROMAN ANDALUCÍA; The Lost Treasures of Acinipo; The Temples of Baelo Claudia; The Heavenly City of Itálica; Chapter Six: VANDALUCIA: VISIGOTHS AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY; San Isidoro's Encyclopaedia; Part Two: AL-ANDALUS: FROM INVASION TO THE FALL OF GRANADA; Chapter Seven: TARIQ'S ROCK: THE CREATION OF AL-ANDALUS; A United Iberia

Chapter Eight: THE BLACKBIRD OF BAGHDAD: ALI IBN-NAFI AND THE INVENTION OF ROCK'N'ROLLZiryab's Legacy; Chapter Nine: TAMING A WILDERNESS: MADINAT AL-ZAHRA; Madinat al-Zahra, the Lost Islamic Wonder; The Fate of the "Shining City"; Chapter Ten: THE LIBRARY OF BABEL: CHRISTIANS,JEWS,MUSLIMS AND LA CONVIVENCIA; The Spanish Miracle; Chapter Eleven: TWO GENTLEMEN OF CÓRDOMA: AVERROËS,MAIMONIDES,AND THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY; Averroës and Rationalism; The Second Moses; Part Three: ESPAÑA: FROM RECONQUEST TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; Chapter Twelve: 1492: THE FALL OF GARNADA; The Alhambra

Boabdil Hands Over the KeysChapter Thirteen: TAKING THE GARDEN INDOORS: VELÁZQUEZ AND THE LANDSCAPE ARTISTS OF ANDALUCÍA; Rethinking the Landscape in Renaissance Spain; Velázquez at the Movies; Foregrounding the Background; Chapter Fourteen: NIGHTS IN THE GARDEN OF SPAIN: THE ROMANTIC ERA FABRICATES ""ANDALUSIA""; The Fictitious Landscapes of Manuel Barrón y Carillo; Chapter Fifteen: THE PICASSO CENTURY: CUBSIM,ABSTRACTION AND POST-MODERNISM IN ANDALUZ ART; A Painter in New York; Dos Extranjeros: Bomberg and Richmond; Contemporary Andaluz Indoor Gardeners; Andalucía on Screen

Chapter Sixteen: ENGLISHMEN ABROAD: THE CURIOUS HISTORY OF ANGLOPHONE WRITERS IN ANDALUCÍAWashington Irving's Parque Tematico; George Borrow and the Gypsies of Spain; Laurie Lee's Moment of War; Alastair Boyd's Idyll, J. G. Ballard's Heart of Darkness; Chris Stewart's Lemon Crop; Paul Richardson's Vanishing Spain; Chapter Seventeen: FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA'S LAST NIGHT ON EARTH: ANDALUZ WRITERS WRITING ANDALUCÍA; Lorca's Question to the Future; Jimenéz, the Transcendentalist of Moguer; Miguel Hernández, Poet of the Trenches; Luis Cernuda's Songs of the Land; Enter Goytisolo, Bristling

Juan Bonilla, Literary Gunslinger

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-970451-1

OCLC:

647042713