The Hungry Eye - by Leonard Barkan (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>An enticing history of food and drink in Western art and culture</b> <p/>Eating and drinking can be aesthetic experiences as well as sensory ones. <i>The Hungry Eye</i> takes readers from antiquity to the Renaissance to explore the central role of food and drink in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and statecraft. <p/>In this beautifully illustrated book, Leonard Barkan provides an illuminating meditation on how culture finds expression in what we eat and drink. Plato's <i>Symposium</i> is a timeless philosophical text, one that also describes a drinking party. Salome performed her dance at a banquet where the head of John the Baptist was presented on a platter. Barkan looks at ancient mosaics, Dutch still life, and Venetian Last Suppers. He describes how ancient Rome was a paradise of culinary obsessives, and explains what it meant for the Israelites to dine on manna. He discusses the surprising relationship between Renaissance perspective and dinner parties, and sheds new light on the moment when the risen Christ appears to his disciples hungry for a piece of broiled fish. Readers will browse the pages of the <i>Deipnosophistae</i>--an ancient Greek work in sixteen volumes about a single meal, complete with menus--and gain epicurean insights into such figures as Rabelais and Shakespeare, Leonardo and Vermeer. <p/>A book for anyone who relishes the pleasures of the table, <i>The Hungry Eye</i> is an erudite and uniquely personal look at all the glorious ways that food and drink have transfigured Western arts and high culture.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>It's unusual to have a culinary history that is also highly recommended for arts holdings; but <i>The Hungry Eye</i> is a feast of mind and eye that holds much food for thought for scholarly audiences interested in a different approach to food and drink's importance in human affairs.</p>-- "Donovan's Literary Services"<br><br>A foundational text of Food Studies. . . . This book does for food in art and literature what Sidney Mintz did for food and global politics in <i>Sweetness and Power</i>. It should be right up there with Mintz's book as a foundational text of Food Studies. . . . Everyone interested in Food Studies as a discipline, food in art, and anything having to do with food and culture will want to read this book--for its ideas, its gorgeousness, and for sheer pleasure.<b>---Marion Nestle, <i>Food Politics</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Leonard Barkan</b> is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His books include <i>Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures</i> (Princeton), <i>Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture</i>, and <i>Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome</i>. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Twitter @LeonardBarkan
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