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Author Kessler, Marni Reva, author.

Title Discomfort food : the culinary imagination in late nineteenth-century French art / Marni Reva Kessler
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, pages) : illustrations, maps
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
Summary "An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 16, 2021)
Subject Food in art.
Still-life painting, French -- 19th century
Food -- Psychological aspects
Art and society -- France -- History -- 19th century
ART / European
Art and society
Food in art
Food -- Psychological aspects
Still-life painting, French
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020053625
ISBN 9781452962757
1452962758
145296274X
9781452962740