Research Catalog

Title

The monster in the garden : the Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance landscape design / Luke Morgan.

Author

Morgan, Luke

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

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Details

Description

246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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's website.

Series Statement

Penn studies in landscape architecture

Uniform Title

Penn studies in landscape architecture.

Subject

• Gardens, Renaissance > Italy > Design > History > 16th century
• Landscape design > Italy > History > 16th century
• Garden ornaments and furniture > Italy > Psychological aspects > History > 16th century
• Gardens > Symbolic aspects > History > Italy > 16th century
• Grotesque > Italy > Psychological aspects > History > 16th century
• Monsters > Italy > Psychological aspects > History > 16th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Legibility of Landscape: From Fascism to Foucault -- ch. 2 The Grotesque and the Monstrous -- ch. 3 A Monstruary: The Excessive, the Deficient, and the Hybrid -- ch. 4 "Rare and Enormous Bones of Huge Animals": The Colossal Mode -- ch. 5 "Pietra Morta, in Pietra Viva": The Sacro Bosco.

Call Number

JFE 17-1559

ISBN

• 9780812247558 (hbk : alk. paper)
• 0812247558 (hbk : alk. paper)

LCCN

2015014601

OCLC

913164179

Author

Morgan, Luke, author.

Title

The monster in the garden : the Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance landscape design / Luke Morgan.

Publisher

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Penn studies in landscape architecture

Penn studies in landscape architecture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: MONASH UNIV. INCL. B&W ILLUS.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-1559