Main entry:

De Wachter, Ellen Mara, 1977- author.

Title & Author:

More than the eyes : art, food & the senses / Ellen Mara De Wachter.

Edition:

First edition of 3500.

Publication:

Los Angeles, [California] : Atelier Éditions ; New York, New York : ARTBOOK/D.A.P., [2024]
©2024

Description:

239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-234) and index.
I eat therefore I am -- Coming to our senses -- Adrian Piper: power is bad for the lining of the stomach -- Carolee Schneemann: go feed yourself! -- Hannah Wilke: chew her up and spit her out -- Sarah Lucas: the unsavory aspect of the usually discreet -- Alison Knowles: a recipe for art and life -- Food: love among the cabbages -- Andy Warhol: bringing home the bacon -- Agnes Denes: wall street wheat -- Felix Gonzalez-Torres: an endless supply -- Zoe Leonard: decomposition as process -- Art and food today -- Endnotes -- Index -- Bibliography -- Image credits -- About the author.

Summary:

"In More Than the Eyes, writer Ellen Mara De Wachter considers the ways in which food, when used as a material in contemporary art, confronts, subverts and ultimately brings us to our senses. Focusing on artists working between 1960 and 2000, the book shows how we have become restricted by a hierarchy that values sight and reason above other senses, and how encounters with food in art can help us break this bind. By putting food at the center of the highly visual art world, the artists in this book quicken a range of sensations beyond visual perception, helping us access and liberate aspects of our experience that have been ignored or suppressed. Topics include Carolee Schneemann's performance pieces using meat; the way in which Hannah Wilke rejects the imperative for women to be "sweet"; Zoe Leonard's exploration of decomposition as process; Adrian Piper's conceptual work incorporating hamburgers; the SoHo artists' restaurant FOOD; Agnes Denes' wheat field near Wall Street; and how other artists, such as Sarah Lucas and Andy Warhol, introduce the iconography, foods and desires of the working class into the rarefied environment of the gallery and museum."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9781954957046 (paperback)
1954957041 (paperback)

Subject:

Food in art.
Arts, Modern Themes, motives.
Aliments dans l'art.

Added entries:

More than the eyes : art, food and the senses
Art, food & the senses

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320713
Call No.: 320713
Copy: 1
Status: Available