Green Worlds in Early Modern Italy
Karen Hope Goodchild, April Oettinger, Leopoldine Prosperetti (eds)
- Title
- Ornament and Monstrosity in Early Modern Art
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- € 104,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789462984967
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- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 282
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 05 - 08 - 2019
- Dimensions
- 17 x 24 cm
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
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INTRODUCTION
Chris Askholt Hammeken and Maria Fabricius Hansen:
Introduction
GROTESQUES
Chapter 1
Maria Fabricius Hansen:
Ambiguous Delights: Ornamental Grotesques and Female Monstrosity in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Chapter 2
Luke Morgan:
Dissonant Symphonies: The Villa d'Este in Tivoli and the Grotesque
SACRED SPACE AND NARRATIVE
Chapter 3
Tianna Helena Uchacz:
Outside-In: The Intrusion of Ornament into Sacred Narrative
Chapter 4
Barnaby Nygren:
'That savage should mate with tame': Hybridity, Indeterminacy, and the Grotesque in the Murals of San Miguel Arcángel (Ixmiquilpan, Mexico)
Chapter 5
Maria-Anna Aristova:
Decoration in the Desert: Unsettling the Order of Architecture in the Certosa di San Martino
AGENCY AND ORNAMENT ENLIVENED
Chapter 6
Lisa Andersen:
Masquing/(Un)Masking: Animation and the Restless Ornament of Fontainebleau
Chapter 7
Chris Askholt Hammeken:
Sea-Change: The Whale in the Florentine Loggia
Chapter 8
Frances Connelly:
Ornament and Agency: Vico's Poetic Monsters
A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 9
Jacob Wamberg:
Trafficking the Body: Prolegomena to a Posthumanist Theory of Ornament and Monstrosity
Chris Askholt Hammeken, Maria Fabricius Hansen (eds)
Ornament and Monstrosity in Early Modern Art
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.
Editors
Chris Askholt Hammeken
Chris Askholt Hammeken has a PhD in Art History from Aarhus University.
Maria Fabricius Hansen
Maria Fabricius Hansen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Copenhagen.
