Consuming Painting

Food and the Feminine in Impressionist Paris

Allison Deutsch (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London)

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Pennsylvania State University Press
01 February 2021

Theory of art; History of Art & Design Styles; Art & design styles: Pre-Raphaelite art; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes)

In Consuming Painting, Allison Deutsch challenges the pervasive view that Impressionism was above all about visual experience. Focusing on the language of food and consumption as they were used by such prominent critics as Baudelaire and Zola, she writes new histories for familiar works by Manet, Monet, Caillebotte, and Pissarro and creates fresh possibilities for experiencing and interpreting them.

Examining the culinary metaphors that the most influential critics used to express their attraction or disgust toward painting, Deutsch rethinks French modern-life painting in relation to the visceral reactions that these works evoked in their earliest publics. Writers posed viewing as analogous to ingestion and used comparisons to food to describe the appearance of paint and the painter’s process. The food metaphors they chose were aligned with specific female types, such as red meat for sexualized female flesh, confections for fashionably made-up women, and hearty vegetables for agricultural laborers. These culinary figures of speech, Deutsch argues, provide important insights into both the fabrication of the feminine and the construction of masculinity in nineteenth-century France. Consuming Painting exposes the social politics at stake in the deeply gendered metaphors of sense and sensation.

Original and convincing, Consuming Painting upends traditional narratives of the sensory reception of modern painting. This trailblazing book is essential reading for specialists in nineteenth-century art and criticism, gender studies, and modernism.

By: Allison Deutsch (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Birkbeck University of London)
Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 1.111kg
ISBN: 9780271087238
ISBN 10: 0271087234
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 01 February 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Allison Deutsch is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London.

Reviews for Consuming Painting: Food and the Feminine in Impressionist Paris

Consuming Painting offers an impressive new take on the history of late nineteenth-century French art, one that makes clear for the first time the sensorial range in the historical reception of modern painting. In her reevaluation and retranslation of art criticism, combined with her highly persuasive descriptions of a range of paintings, Deutsch shows the sustained discourse of desire and disgust built into the deeply gendered metaphorics of painting as culinary consumption. -Marnin Young, author of Realism in the Age of Impressionism: Painting and the Politics of Time