Bananas, Art, and Visual Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean
Through a diverse collection of essays on the history of art of the Americas, this book explores the cultural, political, and environmental legacy of bananas from viceregal painting and nineteenth‑century photography to contemporary Latinx and Caribbean Art. Through sixteen original essays by leadin...
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| description | Through a diverse collection of essays on the history of art of the Americas, this book explores the cultural, political, and environmental legacy of bananas from viceregal painting and nineteenth‑century photography to contemporary Latinx and Caribbean Art. Through sixteen original essays by leading art historians, this anthology traces the banana’s remarkable journey from colonial still lifes to contemporary installations. The collection examines how artists have deployed this tropical fruit to challenge imperial narratives, visualize labor struggles, and reclaim cultural identities. Expanding on the award‑winning digital humanities project Banana Craze, this volume presents a comprehensive analysis of banana imagery across diverse media—religious murals, archival photographs, avant‑garde paintings, and performance art. Each chapter illuminates how artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas have transformed this ubiquitous commodity into a complex visual metaphor that speaks to histories of exploitation, ecological devastation, and artistic resistance. This book will appeal to scholars of art history, visual culture, Latin American and Caribbean studies, postcolonial theory, and environmental humanities. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1770392026-05-30T05:17:37Z Bananas, Art, and Visual Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano, Blanca Solano Roa, Juanita Postcolonial visual studies Commodity aesthetics Labor representation art Environmental humanities United Fruit Company history Diaspora identity politics Visual culture of banana industry thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art Through a diverse collection of essays on the history of art of the Americas, this book explores the cultural, political, and environmental legacy of bananas from viceregal painting and nineteenth‑century photography to contemporary Latinx and Caribbean Art. Through sixteen original essays by leading art historians, this anthology traces the banana’s remarkable journey from colonial still lifes to contemporary installations. The collection examines how artists have deployed this tropical fruit to challenge imperial narratives, visualize labor struggles, and reclaim cultural identities. Expanding on the award‑winning digital humanities project Banana Craze, this volume presents a comprehensive analysis of banana imagery across diverse media—religious murals, archival photographs, avant‑garde paintings, and performance art. Each chapter illuminates how artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas have transformed this ubiquitous commodity into a complex visual metaphor that speaks to histories of exploitation, ecological devastation, and artistic resistance. This book will appeal to scholars of art history, visual culture, Latin American and Caribbean studies, postcolonial theory, and environmental humanities. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. 2026-05-30T05:17:36Z 2026-05-30T05:17:36Z 2026-05-29T11:31:30Z 2026 book ONIX_20260529T115621_9781003728306_21 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/113851 9781003728306 9781041216506 9781041216551 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177039 eng Routledge Research in Art History open access Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003728306 10.4324/9781003728306 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781003728306 9781041216506 9781041216551 Routledge 1 New York open access |
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