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Title The Taste of Art : Cooking, Food, and Counterculture in Contemporary Practices / edited by Silvia Bottinelli and Margherita D'Ayala Valva
Published Fayetteville, United States : University of Arkansas Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Food and foodways
Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)
Contents Taste of art : methodologies and critical approaches. Can cuisine be art? A philosophical (and heterodox) proposal / Nicola Perullo -- Time changes everything : futurist/modernist cooking / Carol Helstosky -- From stove to screen : food porn, professional chefs, and the construction of masculinity in films / Fabio Parasecoli -- Spoerri reads Rumohr : the spirit of culinary art revisited / Margherita d'Ayala Valva -- Food art : multisensoriality and experience. Food, decay, and disgust -- Paul McCarthy's Bossy Burger as contemporary still life / Anja Foerschner -- In & on : herbs, fish, and Janine Antoni's touch / Silvia Bottinelli -- Luciano Fabro : bitter sweets for Nadezhda Mandelstam / Sharon Hecker -- The kitchen : intersections between the private and public spheres. Feminist art : kitchen testimony / Jody B. Cutler -- Es geht um die Wurst : on Peter Fischli and David Weiss's Sausage photographs / Edward A. Vazquez -- Elzḃieta Jabłonska's kitchen interventions: food, art, and the maternal identity / Barbara Kutis -- Eating out : food art in the public sphere. Artists and friends : Daniel Spoerri's Eat Art Gallery / Cecilia Novero -- Express yourself : Al's Cafe ́in context / Rachel Federman -- Ways of eating : tradition, innovation, and the production of community in food-based art / Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson -- Not for art's sake : ethics, ecology, and sustainability. Joseph Beuys : gastrosophical aesthetics / Harald Lemke -- Provisional objects : Alison Knowles's Bean rolls / Nicole L. Woods -- Cooking and eating across species : Natalie Jeremijenko's Cross(x)species adventure club / Lindsay Kelley
Summary This book offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors are scholars from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, film studies, and history. As a whole, the volume illustrates how artists engage with food as matter and process in order to explore alternative aesthetic strategies and indicate countercultural shifts in society. The collection opens by exploring the theoretical intersections of art and food, food art's historical root in Futurism, and the ways in which food carries gendered meaning in popular film. Subsequent sections analyze the ways in which artists challenge mainstream ideas through food in a variety of scenarios. Beginning from a focus on the body and subjectivity, the authors zoom out to look at the domestic sphere, and finally the public sphere. -- Provided by the publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 18, 2017)
Subject Food -- Social aspects
Food in art.
Food in literature.
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
ART -- Criticism & Theory.
Food in art
Food in literature
Food -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Bottinelli, Silvia, editor.
D'Ayala Valva, Margherita, editor
ISBN 9781610756075
161075607X