
Food has always been a favourite subject of the world's artists from still-lifes by Matisse & Picasso to the works of Claes Oldenberg & Andy Warhol But how do artists eat? The Modern Art Cookbook provides a window into how both great & lesser-known modern artists writers & poets ate cooked depicted & wrote about food A cornucopia of life in the kitchen & in the studio throughout the twentieth century & beyond the book explores a wide-ranging panoply of artworks of food cooking & eating from Europe & the Americas
- from the early moderns through the Impressionists Symbolists Cubists Futurists & Surrealists up to today's art
- as well as writing about food from contemporary novelists writers & poets Mary Ann Caws supplies numerous delicious modern art recipes from Frida Kahlo's Veracruz-style red snapper to David Hockney's strawberry cake & Claude Monet's madeleines exploring the parallels between the art of cuisine & the visual & verbal arts The Modern Art Cookbook illuminates the significance of particular ingredients & dishes in the lives of some of the world's greatest artists providing a feast for the eyes & the mind as well as the palate Beautifully illustrated & often surprising this compilation is a joyous guide to the art of food