TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morgan,Luke
TI  - The Monster in the Garden: The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design
T2  - Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture Series
SN  - 9780812291872
AV  - SB458.54.M67 2016 
U1  - 712.0945 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Gardens, Renaissance-Italy-Design-History-16th century
KW  - Landscape design-Italy-History-16th century
KW  - Garden ornaments and furniture-Italy-Psychological aspects-History-16th century
KW  - Gardens-Symbolic aspects-Italy-History-16th century
KW  - Grotesque-Italy-Psychological aspects-History-16th century
KW  - Monsters-Italy-Psychological aspects-History-16th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments
N2  - In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan develops a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, arguing that the monster was a key figure in Renaissance culture and that the incorporation of the monstrous into gardens was not incidental but an essential feature
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