The Ibero-American Baroque

The Ibero-American Baroque is an interdisciplinary, empirically-grounded contribution to the understanding of cultural exchanges in the early modern Iberian world.

Beatriz de Alba-Koch is an associate professor of History and director of Latin American Studies at the University of Victoria.

"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."

Lauren Beck, Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter and Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, Mount Allison University:

"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."