The mediality of sugar / / edited by Nadja Gernalzick and Joseph Imorde.
"The Mediality of Sugar probes the potential of reading sugar as a mediator across some of the disciplinary distinctions in early twenty-first century research in the arts, literature, architecture, and popular culture. Selected artistic practices and material cultures of sugar across Europe an...
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| Superior document: | Studies in art & materiality ; Volume 5 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in art & materiality ;
Volume 5. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (357 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- The Mediality of Sugar: Introduction
- Sugar as Medium of Social Signification
- 1 Materiality, Medium, and Morality: The Colors of Sugar in Trade and Consumption in Europe Today
- 2 Mediating Social Life: Confectionery as Cultural Objects in Sweden in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- 3 The Stenographer's Lunch
- 4 Royal Cavities: Towards a Mediality of Sugar
- 5 Sweet Prosperity and Bitter Bondage: Caribbean Empowerment and Race in Andrea Stuart's Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire (2012)
- Sugar in Art and Architecture
- 6 Architecture and Urban Form Derived from Sugar Production: Company Towns in Brazil from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
- 7 Sugar Cubes That Revolutionized Art: Malevich's Artistic Project as Interpreted by Leonid Tishkov in Kubvechnosti (2012)
- 8 "It Is at This Cost that You Eat Sugar in Europe:" The Desire for Justice and Moreau le Jeune's Illustrations (1787) for Voltaire's Candide ou l'optimisme (1759)
- 9 Sugar Cube Mission Models in California Primary Schools and the Whitewashing of Native American Labor
- Outlook
- 10 "Sugar Is Not a Vegetable:" The Mediality of Sugar in Anthropocenic Entanglements
- Appendix
- Geography of World Sugar Production and History of Labor in Sugar: Maps and Graphs
- Index.