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Ornament and Monstrosity in Early Modern Art
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2019
About this book
The paradox of ornament and monstrosity launches an array of thought-provoking perspectives on sixteenth-century visual art by targeting its ambiguous artificiality and moments of anxiety.
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Hammeken Chris Askholt :
Chris Askholt Hammeken has a PhD in Art History from Aarhus University.Hansen Maria Fabricius :
Maria Fabricius Hansen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Copenhagen.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Introduction
13 - Part I. Grotesques
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1. Ambiguous Delights: Ornamental Grotesques and Female Monstrosity in Sixteenth-Century Italy
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2. Dissonant Symphonies: The Villa d’Este in Tivoli and the Grotesque
73 - Part II. Sacred Space and Narrative
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3. Outside-In: The Intrusion of Ornament into Sacred Narrative
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4. ‘That savage should mate with tame’: Hybridity, Indeterminacy, and the Grotesque in the Murals of San Miguel Arcángel (Ixmiquilpan, Mexico)
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5. Decoration in the Desert: Unsettling the Order of Architecture in the Certosa di San Martino
153 - Part III. Agency and Ornament Enlivened
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6. Masquing/(Un)Masking: Animation and the Restless Ornament of Fontainebleau
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7. Sea-Change: The Whale in the Florentine Loggia
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8. Ornament and Agency: Vico’s Poetic Monsters
221 - Part IV. A Historical Perspective
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9. Trafficking the Body: Prolegomena to a Posthumanist Theory of Ornament and Monstrosity
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Index
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 20, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9789048535873
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
282
Illustrations:
89
Coloured Illustrations:
89
eBook ISBN:
9789048535873
Keywords for this book
Early modern and Renaissance art; artificiality; playfulness; ambiguity; anxiety; ornament
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
