The Modern Art Cookbook

(Paperback)

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Food has always been a favourite subject of the world's artists, from still-lifes by Matisse and Picasso to the works of Claes Oldenberg and Andy Warhol. But how do artists eat

The Modern Art Cookbook provides a window into how both great and lesser-known modern artists, writers, and poets ate, cooked, depicted, and wrote about food. A cornucopia of life in the kitchen and in the studio throughout the twentieth century and beyond, the book explores a wide-ranging panoply of artworks of food, cooking, and eating from Europe and the Americas from the early moderns through the Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, Futurists, and Surrealists up to today's art as well as writing about food from contemporary novelists, writers, and poets. Beautifully illustrated and often surprising, this new paperback edition is a joyous guide to the art of food.

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`This book provides a rich fund of anecdotes and recipes, mined from the notebooks and journals of writers and artists who also liked to cook. Picassos charlotte au chocolat, Czannes knockout bitter orange wine, David Hockneys strawberry cake and Roy Lichtensteins grilled bass all figure here, illustrated by their own or other artists pictures. Telegraph Magazine; `The marriage of lookery and cookery is beguiling: the total effect is mouth-watering. Alex Danchev, Times Literary Supplement

Author Bio

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature, Graduate School, City University of New York. She is the author of several books for Reaktion, including Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason (2017), Pablo Picasso (2005) and Salvador Dal (2008).