Discomfort food: the culinary imagination in late nineteenth-century French art

Abstract

"An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke"--

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.