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The Monster in the Garden : The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design / Luke Morgan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Penn Studies in Landscape ArchitecturePublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 48 illusContent type:
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  • 9780812247558
  • 9780812291872
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  • 712 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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
Summary: Monsters, grotesque creatures, and giants were frequently depicted in Italian Renaissance landscape design, yet they have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates that gardens of the period conveyed darker, more disturbing themes than has been acknowledged.In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan argues that the monster is a key figure in Renaissance culture. Monsters were ciphers for contemporary anxieties about normative social life and identity. Drawing on sixteenth-century medical, legal, and scientific texts, as well as recent scholarship on monstrosity, abnormality, and difference in early modern Europe, he considers the garden within a broader framework of inquiry. Developing a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, Morgan argues that the presence of monsters was not incidental but an essential feature of the experience of gardens.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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

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Monsters, grotesque creatures, and giants were frequently depicted in Italian Renaissance landscape design, yet they have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates that gardens of the period conveyed darker, more disturbing themes than has been acknowledged.In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan argues that the monster is a key figure in Renaissance culture. Monsters were ciphers for contemporary anxieties about normative social life and identity. Drawing on sixteenth-century medical, legal, and scientific texts, as well as recent scholarship on monstrosity, abnormality, and difference in early modern Europe, he considers the garden within a broader framework of inquiry. Developing a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, Morgan argues that the presence of monsters was not incidental but an essential feature of the experience of gardens.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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