Visions of pork production, past and future, on French Belle Époque pig postcards
This article presents pig postcards as a lively, compelling, abundant, but largely forgotten, feature of Belle Époque visual culture. They conjugate the commonest of farm animals, enmeshed in its long history as an indispensable food source, with a new medium that became ubiquitous and influential a...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Nineteenth century art worldwide / Association of Historians of nineteenth century Art (AHNCA) |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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2015
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This article presents pig postcards as a lively, compelling, abundant, but largely forgotten, feature of Belle Époque visual culture. They conjugate the commonest of farm animals, enmeshed in its long history as an indispensable food source, with a new medium that became ubiquitous and influential at a time when the pig's role in French culture and agriculture was shifting away from venerable old customs. Scrutinizing pig postcards thus reveals a good deal not just about the surprising scope and impact of visual media during this period, but also about changes in pork production that were characteristic of the French and, more broadly, of the Western food system's incipient modernization. Caught between a past slipping away and a future not yet fully realized, Belle Époque pig postcards engage the viewer's imagination in both poignant remembrance and anticipatory reverie. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1543-1002 |