03715nam 22006375 450 991082639900332120211006050323.00-8122-9187-510.9783/9780812291872(VaAlASP)PL031414(CKB)4940000000241930(DE-B1597)452769(OCoLC)979631397(DE-B1597)9780812291872(UK-CbPIL)2065623(MiAaPQ)EBC4321851(EXLCZ)99494000000024193020200723h20152016 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Monster in the Garden The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design /Luke MorganPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]©20161 online resource (256 p.) 48 illusPenn Studies in Landscape ArchitectureFrontmatter -- 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 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.Garden ornaments and furnitureItalyPsychological aspectsHistory16th centuryGardensSymbolic aspectsItalyHistory16th centuryGardens, RenaissanceItalyDesignHistory16th centuryGrotesqueItalyPsychological aspectsHistory16th centuryLandscape designItalyHistory16th centuryMonstersItalyPsychological aspectsHistory16th centuryARCHITECTURE / LandscapebisacshArchitecture.Fine Art.Garden History.Medieval and Renaissance Studies.Garden ornaments and furniturePsychological aspectsHistoryGardensSymbolic aspectsHistoryGardens, RenaissanceDesignHistoryGrotesquePsychological aspectsHistoryLandscape designHistoryMonstersPsychological aspectsHistoryARCHITECTURE / Landscape.712.0945Morgan Luke, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1668831DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910826399003321The Monster in the Garden4029696UNINA