More than the eyes : art, food & the senses / Ellen Mara De Wachter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Wachter, Ellen Mara, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food in art.

Arts, Modern--Themes, motives.

Arts, Modern.

Physical Description:

239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition of 3500.

Other Title:

More than the eyes : art, food and the senses

Art, food & the senses

Place of Publication:

[Los Angeles, California] : Atelier Éditions, [2024]

Summary:

"In More Than the Eyes, writer Ellen Mara De Wachter considers the ways in which food, when used as a material in contemporary art, confronts, subverts and ultimately brings us to our senses. Focusing on artists working between 1960 and 2000, the book shows how we have become restricted by a hierarchy that values sight and reason above other senses, and how encounters with food in art can help us break this bind. By putting food at the center of the highly visual art world, the artists in this book quicken a range of sensations beyond visual perception, helping us access and liberate aspects of our experience that have been ignored or suppressed. Topics include Carolee Schneemann's performance pieces using meat; the way in which Hannah Wilke rejects the imperative for women to be "sweet"; Zoe Leonard's exploration of decomposition as process; Adrian Piper's conceptual work incorporating hamburgers; the SoHo artists' restaurant FOOD; Agnes Denes' wheat field near Wall Street; and how other artists, such as Sarah Lucas and Andy Warhol, introduce the iconography, foods and desires of the working class into the rarefied environment of the gallery and museum."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

I eat therefore I am

Coming to our senses

Adrian Piper: power is bad for the lining of the stomach

Carolee Schneemann: go feed yourself!

Hannah Wilke: chew her up and spit her out

Sarah Lucas: the unsavory aspect of the usually discreet

Alison Knowles: a recipe for art and life

Food: love among the cabbages

Andy Warhol: bringing home the bacon

Agnes Denes: wall street wheat

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: an endless supply

Zoe Leonard: decomposition as process

Art and food today

Endnotes

Index

Bibliography

Image credits

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-234) and index.

ISBN:

9781954957046

1954957041

OCLC:

1464885569