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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 13.Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]Copyright date: c2019Description: 281 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Art historians
ISBN:
  • 9462984964
  • 9789462984967
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 709.031 23
LOC classification:
  • N6374 .O76 2019
Contents:
Ambiguous delights : ornamental grotesques and female 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 Arcangel (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.
Summary: Early modern art features a remarkable fascination with ornament, both as decorative device and compositional strategy, across artistic media and genres.0Interestingly, the inventive, elegant manifestations of ornament in the art of the period often include layers of disquieting paradoxes, creating tensions - monstrosities even - that manifest themselves in a variety of ways. In some cases, dichotomies (between order and chaos, artificiality and nature, rational logic and imaginative creativity, etc.) may emerge. Elsewhere, a sense of agitation undermines structures of statuesque control or erupts into wild, unruly displays of constant genesis.0The monstrosity of ornament is brought into play through strategies of hybridity and metamorphosis, or by the handling of scale, proportion, and space in ambiguous and discomforting ways that break with the laws of physical reality. An interest in strange exaggeration and curious artifice allows for such colossal ornamental attitude to thrive within early modern art.
List(s) this item appears in: AD New acquisitions 2021
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Printed Books Accademia di Danimarca Biblioteca KU/sp. Orna 01 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan ACDAN21030515

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ambiguous delights : ornamental grotesques and female 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 Arcangel (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.0Interestingly, the inventive, elegant manifestations of ornament in the art of the period often include layers of disquieting paradoxes, creating tensions - monstrosities even - that manifest themselves in a variety of ways. In some cases, dichotomies (between order and chaos, artificiality and nature, rational logic and imaginative creativity, etc.) may emerge. Elsewhere, a sense of agitation undermines structures of statuesque control or erupts into wild, unruly displays of constant genesis.0The monstrosity of ornament is brought into play through strategies of hybridity and metamorphosis, or by the handling of scale, proportion, and space in ambiguous and discomforting ways that break with the laws of physical reality. An interest in strange exaggeration and curious artifice allows for such colossal ornamental attitude to thrive within early modern art.

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