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Consuming Painting
2021
Overview
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.
Publisher
Penn State University Press,Pennsylvania State University Press
Subject
/ ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
/ Art criticism-France-Paris-History-19th century
/ cuisine
/ European
/ feminism
/ flâneur
/ food
/ France
/ gender
/ History
/ Impressionism (Art)-France-Paris
/ Metaphor in art criticism-History-19th century
/ Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
/ Painting, French-France-Paris-19th century-Themes, motives
/ Paris
/ taste
ISBN
9780271087238, 0271087234, 9780271089959, 0271089954, 9780271089935, 0271089938
