The Monster in the Garden: The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design
Awards:   Commended for Highly Commended for the 2016 Best Book Award by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand 2021 Winner of Highly Commended for the 2016 Best Book Award by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand.
Author:   Luke Morgan
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN:  

9780812247558


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   29 October 2015
Format:   Hardback
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  • Commended for Highly Commended for the 2016 Best Book Award by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand 2021
  • Winner of Highly Commended for the 2016 Best Book Award by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand.

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Author:   Luke Morgan
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780812247558


ISBN 10:   0812247558
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   29 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"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"

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Luke Morgan is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory at Monash University. He is author of Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design.

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