The interpretation of opposite points of view between Europe and the Americas has frequently generated deep controversies. Remember the international Euro-American congresses on the Latin American baroque, ever since the first one held in Rome in 1980: European echoes versus specific entities. In fact, the question of the Latin American cultural sphere’s alternative use for discoveries that were impossible in Europe is analyzed in works such as Roberto Fernández’s in El laboratorio Americano: one of its premises is Burckhardt’s hypothesis according to which America could be the opportunity of shedding new light both on nature and on mankind.
by Victor Pérez Escolano
Attached file to this document : A European Glance through the Mirror of Caribbean Architecture