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Ornament and Monstrosity in Early Modern Art (Hardcover, 0)
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Ornament and Monstrosity in Early Modern Art (Hardcover, 0)
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
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Early modern art features a remarkable fascination with ornament,
both as decorative device and compositional strategy, across
artistic media and genres. Interestingly, the inventive, elegant
manifestations of ornament in the art of the period often include
layers of disquieting paradoxes, creating tensions - monstrosities
even - that manifest themselves in a variety of ways. In some
cases, dichotomies (between order and chaos, artificiality and
nature, rational logic and imaginative creativity, etc.) may
emerge. Elsewhere, a sense of agitation undermines structures of
statuesque control or erupts into wild, unruly displays of constant
genesis. The monstrosity of ornament is brought into play through
strategies of hybridity and metamorphosis, or by the handling of
scale, proportion, and space in ambiguous and discomforting ways
that break with the laws of physical reality. An interest in
strange exaggeration and curious artifice allows for such colossal
ornamental attitude to thrive within early modern art.
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