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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456587603321

Autore

Novero Cecilia

Titolo

Antidiets of the avant-garde [[electronic resource] ] : from Futurist cooking to Eat art / / Cecilia Novero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8166-7067-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 p.)

Disciplina

704.9/496413

709.04

Soggetti

Food in art

Arts, European - 20th century

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?

Sommario/riassunto

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