Antidiets of the avant-garde : from Futurist cooking to Eat art / Cecilia Novero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Novero, Cecilia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food in art.

Arts, European--20th century.

Arts, European.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Europe--History--20th century.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvii, 349 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Discussing an aspect of the European avant-garde that has often been neglected-its relationship to the embodied experience of food, its sensation, and its consumption-Cecilia Novero exposes the surprisingly key roles that food plays in the theoretical foundations and material aesthetics of a broad stratum of works ranging from the Italian Futurist Cookbook to the magazine Dada, Walter Benjamin's writings on eating and cooking, Daniel Spoerri's Eat Art, and the French New Realists.Starting from the premise that avant-garde art involves the questioning of bourgeois aesthetics, Novero demonstrate

Contents:

Introduction: encounters of the culinary and the avant-garde

Futurist banquets

Antimeals of antiart : Dada-diets

Walter Benjamin's gastro-constellations

Daniel Spoerri's Gastronoptikum

Convivia of the neo-avant-garde

Conclusion: in/edible art : what remains?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-7067-6

OCLC:

609681323