FOOD IN PAINTING: FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE PRESENT

"In this exploration of food images in European and American painting since the early Renaissance, [the author] sees food painting as a separate classification of art with its own history. He reconsiders famous works by the likes of Bruegel, Rembrandt, Chardin, Manet, Warhol and others. The text underlines the central importance of sixteenth-century innovations in food subjects, and the great influence of seventeenth-century Dutch art in the development of food imagry. In its examinations of foods and consumption past and present, this book explores still-lifes, aphrodisiacs, hunting pictures, bottled water, market stalls, menus, pets, dining-rooms, diners as well as how images of food work that are purely symbolic, the sexual references of Surrealist food art, food as a marginal element in allegories, etc."--Jacket.