May I draw your attention to the first book I've ever written and gotten published (www.olms.de). It's an argument about the meaning of the Renaissance grotesques, a style of ornament you may very well have come across, because the style, or certain motifs, had been put on exterior walls, painting frames and many other places, which we can still see today. The grotesques' particularity is their intertwining of human, animal and plant shapes. I believe there was such a thing as a visual rhetoric of the grotesques and make that argument, using 7 case studies. It's a scholarly book, but I'm not a scholar, so it's written in a manner that should appeal to the interested but non-initiated.
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