Modern Art Cookbook

Food has always been a favourite subject of the worlds artists, from still-lifes by Matisse and Picasso to the works of Claes Oldenberg and Andy Warhol. But how do artists eat? The Modern Art Cookbook provides a window into how both great and lesser-known modern artists, writers and poets ate, cooked, depicted and wrote about food. A cornucopia of life in the kitchen and in the studio throughout the twentieth century and beyond, the book explores a wide-ranging panoply of artworks of food, cooking and eating from Europe and the Americas - from the early moderns through the Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, Futurists and Surrealists up to todays art - as well as surveying writing about food from contemporary novelists, writers and poets.§Mary Ann Caws supplies numerous delicious modern art recipes, from Ezra Pounds Poetic Eggs to Cézannes Baked Tomatoes and Monets Madeleines, exploring the parallels between the art of cuisine and the visual and verbal arts. By looking at artworks as well as writings about food in diaries, novels, letters and poems, The Modern Art Cookbook illuminates the signicance of particular ingredients and dishes in the lives of some of the worlds greatest artists. With more than 100 intriguing full-colour images and thought-provoking selections from both poetry and prose, it is a feast for the eyes and the mind as well as the palate. Beautifully illustrated and often surprising, this compilation provides a joyous guide to the art of food.