Ut architectura poesis
Subtitle: relaciones entre arquitectura y literatura en la Nueva España durante el siglo XVII
By: Luis Javier Cuesta Hernández
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Universidad Iberoamericana
Published: 2013
Place of publication: México, D.F
Language: spa
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9786074172355
Subjects: Mexican literature; History and criticism; Architecture and literature; History; Space perception in literature; Baroque literature
Other titles: Relaciones entre arquitectura y literatura en la Nueva España durante el siglo XVII
Description: The relationship between architecture and literature is the main objective of this book. The 17th century is a turning point for the consolidation and promotion of the Baroque architecture in Viceroyal New Spain and this study of Cuesta Hernández "was produced from an anthropological history of art view, and follows the concept that artistic objects are considered as primarily human and therefore historical objects (political, religious, functional and ideological) analyzable only in the context of the history of culture, for which they contributed with their specific construction of a "culture of images", and not only as a the production of a history of art as autonomous succession of artistic objects, without any connection with their different contexts." (Publisher's translation) --Verso cover.
Notes: Based on a research project of the same title undertaken between August 2009 and July 2010 at the Universidad Autóoma de Madrid.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: Capítulo I. Competir primores con las mejores de toda Europa. Las grandezas de las ciudades y las dedicaciones de los templos catedralicios; title: Capítulo II. Sumptuosas fábricas y aparatos célebres. Los arcos de triunfo; title: Capítulo III. Labyrinthos para sepulchros. Los túmulos de los Austrias en la Nueva España; title: Capítulo IV. Majestoso y ostentativo panteón. La arquitectura en los sermones del siglo XVII y principios del siglo XVIII; title: Capítulo V: Conclusiones. La relación entre literatura y arquitectura. ¿Ut architectura poesis?