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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aristova, Maria-Anna, contributor.

Hammeken, Chris Askholt, editor.

Hansen, Maria Fabricius, editor.

Morgan, Luke, contributor.

Nygren, Barnaby, contributor.

Uchacz, Tianna Helena, contributor.

Series:

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700.

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decoration and ornament--Europe.

Decoration and ornament.

Grotesque in art.

Monsters in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

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 - 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. The 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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

ISBN:

1-003-70090-X

90-485-6652-5

90-485-3587-5

9781003700906

OCLC:

1142189959