Farm to table :  art, food, and identity in the age of impressionism / 
edited by Andrew Eschelbacher and Lloyd DeWitt. 
 - ix, 213 pages :  illustrations ;  28 cm 
<br/><br/> Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name held at Chrysler Museum of Art, 11th October, 2024-5th January, 2025, Frist Art Museum, 31st January-4th May, 2025, Cincinnati Art Museum and Seattle Art Museum. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> A wide-ranging exploration of art, gastronomy, and national identity in fin-de-siècle France. At the end of the nineteenth century, artists such as Claude Monet, Eva Gonzales's, and Paul Gauguin took as their subject France's relationship with food. The country's bountiful agriculture and the skill of its chefs had long helped to define its strength and position on the international stage. This self-image as the world's culinary capital only grew as the country grappled with war, political instability, imperialism, and industrialization. France's culinary traditions signalled notions of its refinement, fortitude, and ingenuity, yet they also exposed fractures. From cultivation to consumption, food was central to notions of glory but also to those of collective pain. For artists committed to depicting daily circumstances, food was a natural subject, simultaneously quotidian and indicative of the state of the nation. Featuring more than one hundred illustrations, Farm to Table showcases representations of sumptuous ingredients and severe privation, bountiful meals and agrarian crises. The works highlight the possibilities and precariousness of France's colonial and industrial projects; the evolving norms of gender and class; the tenuous relationship between Paris and the provinces; and shifting understandings of science and the environment. Depictions of markets and gardens, farmers, chefs, and restaurants expressed cultural anxieties and aspirations. With essays exploring the economics of wheat growing and the dairy industry, the relationship between food and gender, and the role of colonialism, the catalogue spans the age of Impressionism and provides a new way to consider the era's depictions of modern life at the intersection of art, food, and social politics.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300273816  40.00 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Impressionism (Art)--France--Exhibitions.<br/>Food in art--Exhibitions.<br/>National characteristics, French, in art--Exhibitions.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>709.0344 FAR