The Taste of Art: Cooking, Food, and Counterculture in Contemporary Practices (Food and Foodways)

The Taste of Art offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors are scholars from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, film studies, and history. As a whole, the volume illustrates how artists engage with food as matter and process in order to explore alternative aesthetic strategies and indicate countercultural shifts in society. The collection opens by exploring the theoretical intersections of art and food, food art's historical root in Futurism, and the ways in which food carries gendered meaning in popular film. Subsequent sections analyze the ways in which artists challenge mainstream ideas through food in a variety of scenarios. Beginning from a focus on the body and subjectivity, the authors zoom out to look at the domestic sphere, and finally the public sphere. Here are essays that study a range of artists including, among others, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Roth, Joseph Beuys, Al Ruppersberg, Alison Knowles, Martha Rosler, Robin Weltsch, Vicki Hodgetts, Paul McCarthy, Luciano Fabro, Carries Mae Weems, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Janine Antoni, Elżbieta Jabłońska, Liza Lou, Tom Marioni, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Michael Rakowitz, and Natalie Jeremijenko. Contents 6 Series Editors’ Preface / Jennifer Jensen Wallach and Michael Wise 10 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction / Silvia Bottinelli and Margherita d’Ayala Valva 16 Part I: Taste of Art: Methodologies and Critical Approaches 34 Chapter 1. Can Cuisine Be Art?: A Philosophical (and Heterodox) Proposal / Nicola Perullo 36 Chapter 2. Time Changes Everything: Futurist/Modernist Cooking / Carol Helstosky 58 Chapter 3. From Stove to Screen: Food Porn, Professional Chefs, and the Construction of Masculinity in Films / Fabio Parasecoli 74 Chapter 4. Spoerri Reads Rumohr: The Spirit of Culinary Art Revisited / Margherita d’Ayala Valva 90 Part II: Food Art: Multisensoriality and Experience 104 Chapter 5. Food, Decay, and Disgust: Paul McCarthy’s Bossy Burger as Contemporary Still Life / Anja Foerschner 106 Chapter 6. In & On: Herbs, Fish, and Janine Antoni’s Touch / Silvia Bottinelli 120 Chapter 7. Luciano Fabro: Bitter Sweets for Nadezhda Mandelstam / Sharon Hecker 134 Part III: The Kitchen: Intersections between the Private and Public Spheres 192 Chapter 8. Feminist Art: Kitchen Testimony / Jody B. Cutler 194 Chapter 9. Es Geht Um Die Wurst: On Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s Sausage Photographs / Edward A. Vazquez 210 Chapter 10. Elżbieta Jabłońska’s Kitchen Interventions: Food, Art, and the Maternal Identity / Barbara Kutis 224 Part IV: Eating Out: Food Art in the Public Sphere 240 Chapter 11. Artists and Friends: Daniel Spoerri’s Eat Art Gallery / Cecilia Novero 242 Chapter 12. Express Yourself: Al’s Café in Context / Rachel Federman 262 Chapter 13. Ways of Eating: Tradition, Innovation, and the Production of Community in Food-Based Art / Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson 276 Part V: Not for Art’s Sake: Ethics, Ecology, and Sustainability 296 Chapter 14. Joseph Beuys: Gastrosophical Aesthetics / Harald Lemke 298 Chapter 15. Provisional Objects: Alison Knowles’s Bean Rolls / Nicole L. Woods 314 Chapter 16. Cooking and Eating across Species: Natalie Jeremijenko’s Cross(x)Species Adventure Club / Lindsay Kelley 330 Contributors 344 Notes 352 Index 402

The Taste of Art offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors are scholars from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, film studies, and history. As a whole, the volume illustrates how artists engage with food as matter and process in order to explore alternative aesthetic strategies and indicate countercultural shifts in society.

The collection opens by exploring the theoretical intersections of art and food, food art's historical root in Futurism, and the ways in which food carries gendered meaning in popular film. Subsequent sections analyze the ways in which artists challenge mainstream ideas through food in a variety of scenarios. Beginning from a focus on the body and subjectivity, the authors zoom out to look at the domestic sphere, and finally the public sphere.

Here are essays that study a range of artists including, among others, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Roth, Joseph Beuys, Al Ruppersberg, Alison Knowles, Martha Rosler, Robin Weltsch, Vicki Hodgetts, Paul McCarthy, Luciano Fabro, Carries Mae Weems, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Janine Antoni, El?bieta Jab?o?ska, Liza Lou, Tom Marioni, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Michael Rakowitz, and Natalie Jeremijenko.

This Book Offers A Sample Of Scholarly Essays That Examine The Role Of Food In Western Contemporary Art Practices. The Contributors Are Scholars From A Range Of Disciplines, Including Art History, Philosophy, Film Studies, And History. As A Whole, The Volume Illustrates How Artists Engage With Food As Matter And Process In Order To Explore Alternative Aesthetic Strategies And Indicate Countercultural Shifts In Society. The Collection Opens By Exploring The Theoretical Intersections Of Art And Food, Food Art's Historical Root In Futurism, And The Ways In Which Food Carries Gendered Meaning In Popular Film. Subsequent Sections Analyze The Ways In Which Artists Challenge Mainstream Ideas Through Food In A Variety Of Scenarios. Beginning From A Focus On The Body And Subjectivity, The Authors Zoom Out To Look At The Domestic Sphere, And Finally The Public Sphere. -- Provided By The Publisher. ''This book offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors are scholars from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, film studies, and history. As a whole, the volume illustrates how artists engage with food as matter and process in order to explore alternative aesthetic strategies and indicate countercultural shifts in society. The collection opens by exploring the theoretical intersections of art and food, food art's historical root in Futurism, and the ways in which food carries gendered meaning in popular film. Subsequent sections analyze the ways in which artists challenge mainstream ideas through food in a variety of scenarios. Beginning from a focus on the body and subjectivity, the authors zoom out to look at the domestic sphere, and finally the public sphere.'' -- Site de l'éditeur