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The Monster in the Garden
2015,2016
Overview
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.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc,University of Pennsylvania Press
Subject
/ Architecture and Architectural History
/ colossal
/ Dragon
/ eros
/ Garden ornaments and furniture -- Italy -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 16th century
/ Gardens -- Symbolic aspects -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
/ Gardens, Renaissance -- Italy -- Design -- History -- 16th century
/ Grotesque -- Italy -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 16th century
/ grotto
/ History
/ Landscape design -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
/ landscape garden design history
/ monster
/ Monsters -- Italy -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 16th century
/ statuary
/ thanatos
ISBN
9780812247558, 0812247558, 9780812291872, 0812291875
