Consuming Painting : Food and the Feminine in Impressionist Paris /
Deutsch, Allison
Consuming Painting : Food and the Feminine in Impressionist Paris / Allison Deutsch. - 1 online resource (216 p.) : 25 color/33 b&w illustrations
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter one Metaphor and Materiality in Nineteenth-Century Art Criticism -- Chapter Two The Flesh of Painting -- Chapter three The Confected Canvas -- Chapter four Impressionist Market Gardener -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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In Consuming Painting, Allison Deutsch challenges the pervasive view that Impressionism was above all about visual experience. Focusing on the language of food and consumption as they were used by such prominent critics as Baudelaire and Zola, she writes new histories for familiar works by Manet, Monet, Caillebotte, and Pissarro and creates fresh possibilities for experiencing and interpreting them. Examining the culinary metaphors that the most influential critics used to express their attraction or disgust toward painting, Deutsch rethinks French modern-life painting in relation to the visceral reactions that these works evoked in their earliest publics. Writers posed viewing as analogous to ingestion and used comparisons to food to describe the appearance of paint and the painter’s process. The food metaphors they chose were aligned with specific female types, such as red meat for sexualized female flesh, confections for fashionably made-up women, and hearty vegetables for agricultural laborers. These culinary figures of speech, Deutsch argues, provide important insights into both the fabrication of the feminine and the construction of masculinity in nineteenth-century France. Consuming Painting exposes the social politics at stake in the deeply gendered metaphors of sense and sensation.Original and convincing, Consuming Painting upends traditional narratives of the sensory reception of modern painting. This trailblazing book is essential reading for specialists in nineteenth-century art and criticism, gender studies, and modernism.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271089959
10.1515/9780271089959 doi
Art criticism--History--France--Paris--19th century.
Impressionism (Art)--France--Paris.
Metaphor in art criticism--History--19th century.
Painting, French--France--Paris--19th century.
ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).
759.409/034
Consuming Painting : Food and the Feminine in Impressionist Paris / Allison Deutsch. - 1 online resource (216 p.) : 25 color/33 b&w illustrations
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter one Metaphor and Materiality in Nineteenth-Century Art Criticism -- Chapter Two The Flesh of Painting -- Chapter three The Confected Canvas -- Chapter four Impressionist Market Gardener -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In Consuming Painting, Allison Deutsch challenges the pervasive view that Impressionism was above all about visual experience. Focusing on the language of food and consumption as they were used by such prominent critics as Baudelaire and Zola, she writes new histories for familiar works by Manet, Monet, Caillebotte, and Pissarro and creates fresh possibilities for experiencing and interpreting them. Examining the culinary metaphors that the most influential critics used to express their attraction or disgust toward painting, Deutsch rethinks French modern-life painting in relation to the visceral reactions that these works evoked in their earliest publics. Writers posed viewing as analogous to ingestion and used comparisons to food to describe the appearance of paint and the painter’s process. The food metaphors they chose were aligned with specific female types, such as red meat for sexualized female flesh, confections for fashionably made-up women, and hearty vegetables for agricultural laborers. These culinary figures of speech, Deutsch argues, provide important insights into both the fabrication of the feminine and the construction of masculinity in nineteenth-century France. Consuming Painting exposes the social politics at stake in the deeply gendered metaphors of sense and sensation.Original and convincing, Consuming Painting upends traditional narratives of the sensory reception of modern painting. This trailblazing book is essential reading for specialists in nineteenth-century art and criticism, gender studies, and modernism.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271089959
10.1515/9780271089959 doi
Art criticism--History--France--Paris--19th century.
Impressionism (Art)--France--Paris.
Metaphor in art criticism--History--19th century.
Painting, French--France--Paris--19th century.
ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).
759.409/034