Discomfort food the culinary imagination in late Nineteenth-Century French art / Marni Reva Kessler.

Author/creator Kessler, Marni Reva
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]
Descriptionxxv, 291 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects

Contents Beginnings -- Édouard Manet's Fish (Still life) and the melancholy of the mullet -- Clarifying and compounding Antoine Vollon's Mound of butter -- Gustave Caillebotte's Fruit displayed on a stand and the ghost of the lost city -- Edgar Degas's Beef and the double life of Édouard Manet's Ham -- Ending with the beginning.
Abstract "An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 251-271) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2020053624
ISBN9781517908799 (hbk.)
ISBN9781517908805 (paperback)