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Ornament and monstrosity in early modern art /edited by Chris Askholt Hammeken and Maria Fabricius Hansen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048535873
  • 9048535875
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • NK1330 .O763 2019
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Ambiguous delights : ornamental grotesques and femaile monstrosity in sixteenth-century Italy / Maria Fabricius Hansen -- Dissonant symphonies : the Villa d'Este in Tivoli and the grotesque / Luke Morgan -- Outside-in : the intrusion of ornament into sacred narrative / Tianna Helena Uchacz -- 'That savage should mate with tame' : hybridity, indeterminacy, and the grotesque in the murals of San Miguel Arcángel (Ixmiquilpan, Mexico) / Barnaby Nygren -- Decoration in the desert : unsettling the order of architecture in the Certosa di San Martino / Maria-Anna Aristova -- Masquing/(un)masking : animation and the restless ornament of Fontainebleau / Lisa Andersen -- Sea-change : the whale in the Florentine Loggia / Chris Askholt Hammeken -- Ornament and agency : Vico's poetic monsters / Frances Connelly -- Trafficking the body : prolegomena to posthumanist theory of ornament to monstrosity / Jacob Wamberg.
Subject: Early modern art features a remarkable fascination with ornament, both as decorative device and compositional strategy, across artistic media and genres. Interestingly, the inventive, elegant manifestations of ornament in the art of the period often include layers of disquieting paradoxes, creating tensions --
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Ambiguous delights : ornamental grotesques and femaile monstrosity in sixteenth-century Italy / Maria Fabricius Hansen -- Dissonant symphonies : the Villa d'Este in Tivoli and the grotesque / Luke Morgan -- Outside-in : the intrusion of ornament into sacred narrative / Tianna Helena Uchacz -- 'That savage should mate with tame' : hybridity, indeterminacy, and the grotesque in the murals of San Miguel Arcángel (Ixmiquilpan, Mexico) / Barnaby Nygren -- Decoration in the desert : unsettling the order of architecture in the Certosa di San Martino / Maria-Anna Aristova -- Masquing/(un)masking : animation and the restless ornament of Fontainebleau / Lisa Andersen -- Sea-change : the whale in the Florentine Loggia / Chris Askholt Hammeken -- Ornament and agency : Vico's poetic monsters / Frances Connelly -- Trafficking the body : prolegomena to posthumanist theory of ornament to monstrosity / Jacob Wamberg.

Early modern art features a remarkable fascination with ornament, both as decorative device and compositional strategy, across artistic media and genres. Interestingly, the inventive, elegant manifestations of ornament in the art of the period often include layers of disquieting paradoxes, creating tensions --

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