1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463068903321

Titolo

Food and appetites [[electronic resource] ] : the hunger artist and the arts / / editors by, Ann McCulloch and Pavlina Radia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012

ISBN

1-4438-4652-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McCullochA. M <1949-> (Ann M.)

RadiaPavlina

Disciplina

809.9335

Soggetti

Food in literature

Hunger in literature

Food in art

Hunger in art

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.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART IV; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

This book traces the various configurations of food as hunger, desire, and appetite which point to the complex dialectic of consumption and consummation of ideas and forms underpinning the arts. It examines the relationship between nature and science, space and the act of artistic creation, desire and the arts, appetite and hunger. One of the aims of the book is to explore established theoretical and historical conceptions of "nature" in the arts and re-think their relationship to appetite i...