Food, poetry, and the aesthetics of consumption : eating the avant-garde

Publication Data

• Title Food, poetry, and the aesthetics of consumption : eating the avant-garde
• Author Michel Delville
• Publisher Routledge
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location London
• Language English

Contents

Introduction
Tasting is believing: a few thoughts on still life poetics
On tender buttons and Brussels sprouts: Modernism and the aesthetics of consumption
Pop serialism: soup cans, pie counters and things that look like meat
Minimalists and anorexics
Uncontrollable materialities: food and the body in performance
Epilogue: the food and hunger poet at the turn of the century; anorexia, anthropoemia and abjection
Notes.

Topics

• Food in art
• Arts, Modern

Food, poetry, and the aesthetics of consumption : eating the avant-garde by Michel Delville. ISBN 9780203937792. Published by Routledge in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.