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The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Post-Civil War American Art and Culture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Post-Civil War American Art and Culture./
Author:	Klein, Shana.
Description:	351 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-02A(E).
Subject:	Art history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3723422
ISBN:	9781339061672

The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Post-Civil War American Art and Culture.
Klein, Shana.

The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Post-Civil War American Art and Culture. - 351 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2015.

The Fruits of Empire is a social and visual history of food in American art and culture. With four fruit case-studies on representations of grapes, oranges, watermelons, and bananas, this project demonstrates how the visual culture of food provides a platform for examining the expansion and reconstruction of the United States in the decades following the Civil War. While chapters on grape and orange representations from California and Florida reveal the ways in which fruit serviced national expansion and the colonization of America's fruit-lands, a chapter on watermelon imagery illustrates the racial stereotypes assigned to food that reinforced social divisions between white from "colored" eaters. A final chapter on depictions of bananas investigates the exploitation of land and labor underwriting American fruit corporations in Central America. By directing attention to representations of fruit in the Sunbelt and broader Americas, this dissertation reorients the American Art History canon centered in the Northeast to art and artists in the country's borders. This project also widens the scope of American Art History by looking beyond the fine arts to the visual culture of cookbooks, crate labels, and silverware. Examining those who labored the fruits visible in artistic depictions sheds light on another overlooked topic within the field of American art. In the end, readers discover that representations of food in American art and culture are neither innocent nor straight forward, but politically-charged pictures driven by ideologies that support or challenge an imperial agenda in North America. By excavating the cultural histories of food in American art, The Fruits of Empire reveals how the cultivation of fruit in soil and on canvas participated in the cultivation of American empire.

ISBN: 9781339061672Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122701
Art history.

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