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The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification: Re-Presenting a Global Fruit

by Victoria Avery , Melissa Calaresu
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781836245933
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: British Academy
  • Publisher Imprint: British Academy
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  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: USD 115.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1230 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals

The pineapple’s ‘discovery’ by European colonisers in the late fifteenth century and its remarkable global trajectory – from an early modern object of rarity, desire, and horticultural innovation to a cheap, canned consumable and fair-trade logo today – i

Avery, Victoria: - Victoria Avery has been Keeper of European Sculpture & Decorative Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, since 2010 prior to which she was Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Warwick. Vicky's primary field of expertise is European sculpture from 1400 to the present day but she has broad knowledge of the materiality, making, usage, collecting and display of early modern European decorative arts. She has curated numerous research-led interdisciplinary exhibitions including Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (2019-2020), from which this book emerges.

Calaresu, Melissa: - Melissa Calaresu is the Neil McKendrick Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, and co-curator, with Victoria Avery, of the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition and accompanying catalogue, Feast & Fast: The art of food in Europe, 1450-1800 (London: Philip Wilson, 2019). She is a cultural historian whose research interests include the history of food, the representation of urban space, and material culture in early modern Italy. Recent publications have focused on selling food on the street, urban kitchens, and the Grand Tour of the eighteenth-century Welsh painter, Thomas Jones. She is co-editor of the journal, Global Food History.

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