03701nam 22005415 450 991100916650332120210729020517.09780271089959027108995410.1515/9780271089959(CKB)5590000000533523(DE-B1597)590049(DE-B1597)9780271089959(OCoLC)1259328732(MiAaPQ)EBC31784140(Au-PeEL)EBL31784140(EXLCZ)99559000000053352320210729h20212021 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierConsuming Painting Food and the Feminine in Impressionist Paris /Allison Deutsch1st ed.University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]©20211 online resource (216 p.) 25 color/33 b&w illustrationsFrontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter one Metaphor and Materiality in Nineteenth-Century Art Criticism -- Chapter Two The Flesh of Painting -- Chapter three The Confected Canvas -- Chapter four Impressionist Market Gardener -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn Consuming Painting, Allison Deutsch challenges the pervasive view that Impressionism was above all about visual experience. Focusing on the language of food and consumption as they were used by such prominent critics as Baudelaire and Zola, she writes new histories for familiar works by Manet, Monet, Caillebotte, and Pissarro and creates fresh possibilities for experiencing and interpreting them. Examining the culinary metaphors that the most influential critics used to express their attraction or disgust toward painting, Deutsch rethinks French modern-life painting in relation to the visceral reactions that these works evoked in their earliest publics. Writers posed viewing as analogous to ingestion and used comparisons to food to describe the appearance of paint and the painter’s process. The food metaphors they chose were aligned with specific female types, such as red meat for sexualized female flesh, confections for fashionably made-up women, and hearty vegetables for agricultural laborers. These culinary figures of speech, Deutsch argues, provide important insights into both the fabrication of the feminine and the construction of masculinity in nineteenth-century France. Consuming Painting exposes the social politics at stake in the deeply gendered metaphors of sense and sensation.Original and convincing, Consuming Painting upends traditional narratives of the sensory reception of modern painting. This trailblazing book is essential reading for specialists in nineteenth-century art and criticism, gender studies, and modernism.Art criticismFranceParisHistory19th centuryImpressionism (Art)FranceParisMetaphor in art criticismHistory19th centuryPainting, FrenchFranceParis19th centuryART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)bisacshArt criticismHistoryImpressionism (Art)Metaphor in art criticismHistoryPainting, FrenchART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).759.409/034Deutsch Allison, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1827356DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9911009166503321Consuming Painting4395524UNINA