AHT 263T Art and Food
This course looks at connections between the visual arts and food, considered both under the perspective of edible substance, and the culinary arts. First, it explores the representation of food in pictorial traditions in the early modern and modern ages, considering social, cultural and economic visual and culinary intersections. Second, the course engages with contemporary art practices that place food as their core material and subject matter. In doing so, the discussion moves to present issues regarding the politics of food. Here, aesthetics can confront socio-economic and environmental debates through joint representational and eatable strategies, where relations take the centre stage. The course involves some encounters with artists and scholars who work with contemporary culinary aesthetics and food politics. The travel component is France where the group will participate in additional artistic visits and workshops. (Recommended prerequisite:
AHT 102,
AHT 103 or
AHT 280.)