Food in the Arts

Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1998

Edited by Harlan Walker

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Extent: 240 pages

Publisher: Prospect Books

Series: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(August 1999)

ISBN: 9781903018019

5.04 x 6.77 inches

Price: $40.00

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A further volume in this series, this year discussing not so much food or its preparation as its portrayal in any number of art forms such as popular music, crime novels, film, theatre, literature, and fine art.


A further volume in this series, this year discussing not so much food or its preparation as its portrayal in any number of art forms such as popular music, crime novels, film, theatre, literature, and fine art. There are also some papers which concentrate on the art of food, or art relating to food: an instance is the art of tissue-paper orange wrappers (a recondite but riveting item). Not all contributions focus on paintings and high arts; there is a remarkable spread, including aesthetics in the arrangement of 18th-century desserts; cookery and the Cuban Santeria religion; drink in 19th-century English fiction; food in film noir; the cook as artist in 18th-century England; architectural food design in France and Italy; popco…

Food in the detective novel / Joan P. Alcock
Food and the indigenous arts of Bengal / Chitrita Banerji
Dining with Gustave Courbet / Lise M. Battaglia
Food in Santeria / Andrew Coe
Sculpture for the eighteenth-century garden dessert / Ivan Day
Splendid processions of trade guilds at Ottoman festivals / Meryle Evans
Food and drink imagery in the Kinks' music, 1964-94 / Elizabeth Field
Sex and 'Coagulated sunlight': butter in literary context / Christine Finn
Memorable food moments in American film / Barbara Haber
Lyrical food / Maurice Holt
Disgusting dinners of Salvador Dali 1 / Robert Irwin
Ingres's Turkish delights / Maria Kaneva-Johnson
Orange wrappers / David Karp
Cook as artist? / Gilly Lehmann
Food of the 'Arabian nights' / Charles Perry
Edible monument / Marcia Reed
Gastronomy in the still-life paintings of Luis Meléndez / Gillian Riley
Food in medieval drama / Anny Rycraft
Brewing and baking in ancient Egyptian art / Delwen Samuel
Poetry of Persian food / Margaret Shaida
Food noir: food's role in dark, foreboding film classics / Art Siemering
In praise of maize: the rise and fall of corny poetry / Andy Smith
Cockaigne: the ultimate hallucination? / Colin Spencer
Dining-room as work of art / Margaret Willes
Food on the silver screen / Susan Wolk and Maria-José Sevilla
Depictions of the last supper / Carolin C. Young
Banquets in Gogol's Dead souls / Sami Zubaida
  • Edited by Harlan Walker