Monster in the Garden - The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design

Informationen zum Autor Luke Morgan Klappentext Luke Morgan is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory at Monash University. He is author of Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design. Zusammenfassung In The Monster in the Garden! Luke Morgan develops a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design! arguing that the monster was a key figure in Renaissance culture and that the incorporation of the monstrous into gardens was not incidental but an essential feature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Reframing the Renaissance Garden Chapter 1. The Legibility of Landscape: From Fascism to Foucault Chapter 2. The Grotesque and the Monstrous Chapter 3. A Monstruary: The Excessive, the Deficient, and the Hybrid Chapter 4. "Rare and Enormous Bones of Huge Animals": The Colossal Mode Chapter 5. "Pietra Morta, in Pietra Viva": The Sacro Bosco Conclusion: Toward the Sublime Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Luke Morgan
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9780812247558
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4755-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture; Penn Studies in Landscape Arch; Penn Studies in Landscape Arch; Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture