Culinary palettes : the visuality of food in postrevolutionary Mexican art / Lesley A. Wolff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolff, Lesley A., author.

Series:

Visualidades (University of Texas Press).

Visualidades : studies in Latin American visual history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food in art--History--20th century.

Food in art.

Art, Mexican--20th century--Themes, motives.

Art, Mexican.

Food in art--History--20th century--Social aspects.

Artists--Mexico--History--20th century.

Artists.

Food--Mexico--History--20th century.

Food.

Food habits--Social aspects--Mexico--History--20th century.

Food habits.

Cooking--Social aspects--Mexico--History--20th century.

Cooking.

Genre:

Recipes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Visuality of food in postrevolutionary Mexican art

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2025.

Summary:

How the visual culture of food, cookery, and consumption played a central role in the making of postrevolutionary Mexico. Postrevolutionary Mexico City was a site of anxious nation-building, as rampant modernization converged and clashed with the nation’s growing nostalgia for its pre-Columbian heritage. During this volatile period, food became a meaningful symbol for a Mexican citizenry seeking new modes of national participation. Culinary Palettes explores how the artistic invocation of food cultures became an arena in which to negotiate the political entanglements of postrevolutionary Mexico. Lesley Wolff casts a nuanced eye on the work of visual artists such as Tina Modotti, Carlos González, and Rufino Tamayo, who nurtured the symbolic and performative power of iconic foods such as pulque, mole poblano, and watermelon. Through analysis of a wide array of visual evidence, including paintings, architecture, vintage postcards, menus, and cookbooks, Culinary Palettes demonstrates how these artists positioned their work within a broad visual landscape that relied upon the power of Mexican foodways in the urban and national imagination. In the studios of modernists, Wolff argues, artistic production, foodways, and Indigeneity proved to be mutually constitutive—and at times weaponized—agents in articulating competing claims to a new nationhood.

Contents:

Entremeses : the visuality of food

Bebidas : pulque, breast milk, and the nation

Guisos : mole poblano, a blend of colonial labor and modern leisure

Frutas : Mr. Watermelon/Señor Sandía and the roots of corporate capitalism

Bocadillos : concentric colonialities, or a tale of two Mexicos

Recipes for mole poblano or mole de guajolote.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-216) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781477330821

1477330828

9781477330838

1477330836

OCLC:

1503842695