TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morgan,Luke
TI  - The Monster in the Garden: The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design 
T2  - Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
SN  - 9780812247558
U1  - 712 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / Landscape
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Fine Art
KW  - Garden History
KW  - Medieval and Renaissance Studies
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291872
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