Antidiets of the Avant-Garde: From Futurist Cooking to Eat Art
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Antidiets of the Avant-Garde: From Futurist Cooking to Eat Art
By (Author) Cecilia Novero
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st February 2010
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
History of art
709.04
Physical Properties
Paperback
368
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 23mm
Description
Discussing an aspect of the European avant-garde that has often been neglectedits relationship to the embodied experience of food, its sensation, and its consumptionCecilia Novero exposes the surprisingly key roles that food plays in the theoretical foundations and material aesthetics of a broad stratum of works ranging from the Italian Futurist Cookbook to the magazine Dada, Walter Benjamin's writings on eating and cooking, Daniel Spoerri's Eat Art, and the French New Realists.
Author Bio
Cecilia Novero is lecturer of German and European studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand.
