Food in Painting - From the Renaissance to the Present (Art Ebook).pdf

Kenneth Bendiner "Food in Painting: From the Renaissance to the Present"
Reaktion Books 2004 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1861892136 | PDF | 4.7 MB

In this sumptuous exploration of food images in European and American painting from the early Renaissance to the present, Kenneth Bendiner sees food painting as a separate classification of art with its own history. He reconsiders famous works by the likes of Brueghel, Rembrandt, Chardin, Manet and Warhol, and intriguing paintings by lesser-known artists, such as Adriaen Coorte and Peter Blume. The book underlines the central importance of 16th-century innovations in food subjects, and the great influence of 17th-century Dutch food paintings in the development of food imagery...