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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794589903321

Autore

Kessler Marni Reva

Titolo

Discomfort food : the culinary imagination in late nineteenth-century French art / / Marni Reva Kessler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of Minnesota Press

Minneapolis : , [2021]

ISBN

1-4529-6274-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 291 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

704.9/496413

Soggetti

Art and society - France - History - 19th century

Food - Psychological aspects

Still life painting, French - 19th century

Food in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Beginnings -- Édouard Manet's Fish (Still life) and the melancholy of the mullet -- Clarifying and compounding Antoine Vollon's Mound of butter -- Gustave Caillebotte's Fruit displayed on a stand and the ghost of the lost city -- Edgar Degas's Beef and the double life of Édouard Manet's Ham -- Ending with the beginning.

Sommario/riassunto

"An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke"--