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Ornament and Monstrosity in Early Modern Art (Hardcover, 0) Loot Price: R3,204
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Ornament and Monstrosity in Early Modern Art (Hardcover, 0): Chris Askholt Hammeken, Maria Fabricius Hansen

Ornament and Monstrosity in Early Modern Art (Hardcover, 0)

Chris Askholt Hammeken, Maria Fabricius Hansen; Contributions by Luke Morgan, Tianna Helena Uchacz, Barnaby Nygren, Maria-Anna Aristova, Lisa Andersen, Frances Connelly, Jacob Wamberg

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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Imprint: Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
Release date: August 2019
Editors: Chris Askholt Hammeken • Maria Fabricius Hansen
Contributors: Luke Morgan • Tianna Helena Uchacz • Barnaby Nygren • Maria-Anna Aristova • Lisa Andersen • Frances Connelly • Jacob Wamberg
Dimensions: 240 x 170 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 282
Edition: 0
ISBN-13: 978-9462984967
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > Renaissance art > General
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LSN: 9462984964
Barcode: 9789462984967

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