Download or read book The Fruits of Empire written by Shana Klein and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fruits of Empire is a history of American expansion through the lens of art and food. In the decades after the Civil War, Americans consumed an unprecedented amount of fruit as it grew more accessible with advancements in refrigeration and transportation technologies. This excitement for fruit manifested in an explosion of fruit imagery within still life paintings, prints, trade cards, and more. Images of fruit labor and consumption by immigrants and people of color also gained visibility, merging alongside the efforts of expansionists to assimilate land and, in some cases, people into the national body. Divided into five chapters on visual images of the grape, orange, watermelon, banana, and pineapple, this book demonstrates how representations of fruit struck the nerve of the nation’s most heated debates over land, race, and citizenship in the age of high imperialism.
Download or read book Watercolour Fruit Vegetable Portraits written by Billy Showell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in hardback in Great Britain 2009" -- Colophon.
Download or read book Fruit Crate Art written by Joe Davidson and published by Booksales. This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a collection of fruit label art with a brief history of the industry and the lithographers who created the labels, and discusses the age, rarity, and quality of popular examples that are still available.
Download or read book An Illustrated Catalog of American Fruits Nuts written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection encompasses 7,497 botanical watercolor paintings of evolving fruit and nut varieties; alongside specimens introduced by USDA plant explorers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Assembled between 1886 and 1942, these remarkable, botanically accurate, watercolors were executed by some 21 professional artists (including nine women). Authored largely before the widespread application of photography, the watercolors were intended to aid accurate identification and examination of fruit varietals , for the nation's fruit growers. Documenting the transformation of American pomology, the science of fruit breeding and production, and the horticultural innovations accountable for contemporary fruit cultivation and consumption, the USDA's collection offers fascinating anthropological and horticultural insights on the fruits we ecstatically devour, and why. Encompassing fruit-suffused anecdotes and observations drawn from the fields of archaeology and anthropology, horticulture and literature, ancient representation and contemporary visual art, Atelier Éditions' kaleidoscopic examination of the USDA's pomological collection, offers readers an engaging, biophillic meditation upon the sweetest of all earth's produce.
Download or read book Hello Fruit Face written by Claudia Strand and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the fanciful paintings of sixteenth-century Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo who composed faces with fruits, books, fish, vegetables, and other items.
Download or read book Fruit The Art of Pastry written by Cedric Ramadier and published by Ducasse Books. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C dric Grolet is simply the most talented pastry chef of his generation--he was named World's Best Pastry Chef in 2018. Food & Wine called his work "the apotheosis of confectionary creation." He fashions trompe l'oeil pieces that appear to be the most perfect, sparkling fruit but are, once cut, revealed to be exquisite pastries with surprising fillings. They are absolutely unforgettable, both to look at and, of course, to eat. This lush cookbook presents Grolet's fruit-based haute-couture pastries like works of art. The chef explains his techniques and his search for authentic tastes and offers a peek into his boundless imagination--he begins the creation of each dessert by drawing. With 130 recipes featuring 45 fruits--citrus, berries, wild and exotic fruits, and even nuts--every pastry lover will want Fruit, for inspiration and to admire the edible sculptures made by this award-winning star of French pastry making.
Download or read book Hooker s Finest Fruits written by William Hooker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Hooker was both an artist and a gardener. Commissioned by the Royal Horticultural Society to paint and describe the most attractive and interesting varieties of fruit being cultivated at the time. One hundred of the best have been brought together here in one volume.
Download or read book Art and Forbidden Fruit written by John Y. Le Bourgeois and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morris's anthology presents the religious and philosophical thought of Chesterton in the aphoristic form in which it was conceived. (Christian)
Download or read book The Ultimate Fruit Label Book written by John A. Baule and published by Schiffer Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1700 bright and colorful fruit labels are alphabetically displayed, from growers and associations ranging from Acme and All American to Yakima Valley and Zirkle. The text includes histories of major fruit companies, the rise of fruit labels, useful collecting hints, values information in every caption, and a detailed bibliography.
Download or read book Forbidden Fruit written by Christiane Inmann and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the ages, from Sappho to Mary Wollstonecraft, extraordinary women have exposed other women to the world of letters and the freedom it brings. This unique cross-cultural account highlights the accomplishments of women writers and educated women, and provides beautiful reproductions of renowned artworks that illustrate their achievements and the worlds they inhabited, thereby also tracing the social functions of the portraits of reading women as well as the types of books they read. The book further explores the changing circumstances of women's access to literature and education throughout the centuries in different cultures and societies. Chronologically arranged, the volume opens in ancient times, exploring civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia, Greece and China. It travels to the Middle Ages and Renaissance Europe, to modern England and America. Along the way readers are treated to profiles of Ban Zhao, Murasaki Shikibu, Christine de Pisan, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Phillis Wheatley and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among many others. Artworks featuring reading women range from Pompeii frescoes to important works by artists through the centuries, including Hans Holbein, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch, Roy Lichtenstein, Balthus and Gerhard Richter. The result is a beautifully illustrated cultural history of women reading, as fascinating and inspiring as the accomplishments it honours.
Download or read book Fruit written by Peter Blackburne-Maze and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of fruit accompanied by 300 color illustrations, and biographies of their illustrators.
Download or read book Fruit Art written by Lannice Snyman and published by Lannice Snyman Book Publishers. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fruit Art raises eyebrows, satisfies the senses and thrills everyone who adores beautiful books. It is filled with delicious recipes that don't require too much time in the kitchen, photographs that push the creativity envelope and edgy styling and design. Fruit's first claim to fame was as an object of seduction, and nothing much has changed since Eve tempted Adam with that apple. Just as Malcolm Dare's extraordinary portfolio of photographs of fruit-with-the-female-form tempted Lannice Snyman to join him in creating this unique book. The result is an inspired melding of talent, where freshness and spontaneity are given full reign. The recipes range from breakfast, through tea time, soups, salads and an array of main dishes that feature seafood, chicken, pork, lamb and beef. Not to mention a clutch of delish desserts and other after-dinner delectations. Fruit Art is a book to cook from, to browse through, to give to someone special as a gift - or to keep and to treasure forever!
Download or read book The Complete Book of Fruit Carving written by Rie Yamada and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive guide for fruit carving for all occasions. All the techniques are illustrated with easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step photos. From the basics to the impressive works at advanced level, this book includes more than 60 carving works for all special occasions like birthday, wedding, and more.
Download or read book That Fruit Is Mine written by Anuska Allepuz and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five goofy, greedy elephants are up against five teeny-tiny mice in this picture book parable for modern times. One day, deep in the jungle, five elephants discover a new tree - a tall tree - and, atop that tree, the most mouth-wateringly delicious fruit any of them had ever seen. "MINE!" each elephant cries. "Mine, mine, mine, mine, MINE!" But who will get there first? And will the elephants spot the five tiny mice, planning and plotting, slowly approaching that tip-top branch? With fresh vision, hilarious characterization and beautifully textured art, Anuska Allepuz tells a tale of teamwork and sharing; a comedy and fable with a contemporary edge.
Download or read book The Prado Guide written by Museo del Prado and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guía en lengua inglesa del Museo Nacional del Prado, que propone un completo recorrido de su colección permanente, desde la escultura antigua hasta la pintura del siglo XIX, a través de una selección de sus obras.
Download or read book Kathleen Ryan Bad Fruit written by and published by Karma, New York. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relics of the everyday as tongue-in-cheek allegories for sexuality and decadence New York-based sculptor Kathleen Ryan (born 1984) recasts found and handmade objects as spectacular, larger-than-life hieroglyphs of Americana. This book gathers her titular series of bejeweled, oversized moldy fruit sculptures.
Download or read book The Tradescants Orchard written by Barrie Edward Juniper and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early seventeenth century there was eager interest, among the leisured classes, in fruits from the Mediterranean and beyond, not least for the kitchen gardens and orchards of England's grand houses. The volume of charming, vibrant, almost primitif watercolour paintings of orchard fruits on the branch, popularly known as 'Tradescants' Orchard', is a precious and fragile relic of this era of broadening horticultural horizons.This manuscript, traditionally associated with the renowned plantsmen, the John Tradescants, was among the eclectic collections of Elias Ashmole (1617-1692), which came to form the basis of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Then, in 1860 it was transferred to the Bodleian Library. It has been quietly recognized as a mysterious treasure, yet the paintings raise many unanswered questions. Who painted them, and for whom? What was their purpose? Only one apple is represented - were there once others, now missing? Whose handwriting appears in the manuscript? Why did the artist paint wildlife such as birds, frogs and butterflies on many of the folios?All sixty-six of the original illustrations are reproduced here in facsimile for the first time, following a general introduction which maps out the mystery of why and how these beguiling watercolours came to be commissioned and made.
