The Taste of Art : Cooking, Food, and Counterculture in Contemporary Practices / Silvia Bottinelli, Margherita d'Ayala Valva ; [edited by] Silvia Bottinelli, Margherita d'Ayala Valva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bottinelli, Silvia.

Contributor:

Bottinelli, Silvia, editor.

D'Ayala Valva, Margherita, editor.

Series:

Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)

Food and foodways

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages).

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville, [Arkansas] : The University of Arkansas Press, 2017.

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.

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

Elżbieta 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 Café 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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781610756075

161075607X

OCLC:

982121233