TY  - GEN
T1  - Ornament and monstrosity in early modern art
T2  - Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ;
A2  - Hammeken, Chris Askholt
A2  - Hansen, Maria Fabricius
LA  - English
PP  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1142189959
AB  - 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.
OP  - 281
CN  - NK1330
SN  - 9789048535873
SN  - 9048535875
SN  - 9789462984967
SN  - 9462984964
KW  - Decoration and ornament : Europe : 16th century : Themes, motives.
KW  - Decoration and ornament : Mexico : Ixmiquilpan : 16th century : Themes, motives.
KW  - Art, European : 16th century : Themes, motives.
KW  - Art : Europe : 16th century : Themes, motives.
KW  - Mural painting and decoration, Mexican : 16th century : Themes, motives.
KW  - Mural painting and decoration : Mexico : Ixmiquilpan : 16th century : Themes, motives.
KW  - Monsters in art.
KW  - Grotesque in art.
KW  - Décoration et ornement : Europe : 16e siècle : Thèmes, motifs.
KW  - Décoration et ornement : Mexique : Ixmiquilpan : 16e siècle : Thèmes, motifs.
KW  - Art européen : 16e siècle : Thèmes, motifs.
KW  - Art : Europe : 16e siècle : Thèmes, motifs.
KW  - Peinture et décoration murales : Mexique : Ixmiquilpan : 16e siècle : Thèmes, motifs.
KW  - Monstres dans l'art.
KW  - Grotesque dans l'art.
KW  - History of art and design styles: c 1400 to c 1600.
KW  - ART : History : Renaissance.
KW  - Art, European : Themes, motives
KW  - Art : Themes, motives
KW  - Decoration and ornament : Themes, motives
KW  - Grotesque in art
KW  - Monsters in art
KW  - Mural painting and decoration, Mexican : Themes, motives
KW  - Mural painting and decoration : Themes, motives
KW  - Europe
KW  - Mexico : Ixmiquilpan
KW  - 1500-1599
KW  - Early modern and Renaissance art, artificiality, playfulness, ambiguity, anxiety, ornament.
ER  -