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Discomfort food : the culinary imagination in late nineteenth-century French art / Marni Reva Kessler.
Fine Arts Library ND1460.F64 K47 2021
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kessler, Marni Reva, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food in art.
- Still-life painting, French--19th century.
- Still-life painting, French.
- Food--Psychological aspects.
- Food.
- Art and society--France--History--19th century.
- Art and society.
- History.
- France.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Edouard Manet's Fish (Still Life) and the Melancholy of the Mullet
- ch. 2 Clarifying and Compounding Antoine Vollon's Mound of Butter
- ch. 3 Gustave Caillebotte's Fruit Displayed on a Stand and the Ghost of the Lost City
- ch. 4 Edgar Degas's Beef and the Double Life of Edouard Manet's Ham.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kessler, Marni Reva. Discomfort food
- ISBN:
- 9781517908799
- 1517908795
- 9781517908805
- 1517908809
- OCLC:
- 1201300406
- Publisher Number:
- 99987736043
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