Feast

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Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art

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Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art is the companion to a unique exhibition at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art. It explores how meals have been used as artistic expression since the 1930s, transforming the act of sharing food into a medium that fosters aesthetic and cultural dialogue. The book covers a range of artist-orchestrated meals, from the Italian Futurists’ banquets to contemporary socially engaged art, with essays, interviews with over twenty artists, and classic texts that examine hospitality, politics, and culture through the lens of contemporary art.
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This richly illustrated volume will appeal to enthusiasts of contemporary art, cultural studies, and anyone interested in the intersections of food, community, and creative practice.

Explores the role of the meal in contemporary art. This title offers the survey of the artist-orchestrated meal: since the 1930s, the act of sharing food and drink has been used to advance aesthetic goals and foster critical engagement with the culture of the moment.

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The companion to a one-of-a-kind exhibition at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art, Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art explores the role of the meal in contemporary art. Feast offers the first survey of the artist-orchestrated meal: since the 1930s, the act of sharing food and drink has been used to advance aesthetic goals and foster critical engagement with the culture of the moment.

Both exhibition catalogue and reader, this richly illustrated book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the art of the meal and its relationship to questions about hospitality, politics, and culture. From the Italian Futurists’ banquets in the 1930s, to 1960s and ’70s conceptual and performative work, to the global prevalence of socially engaged practices today, Feast considers a diverse group of artists who have transformed the meal into a compelling artistic medium.

After an introductory essay by curator Stephanie Smith, the book includes new interviews with over twenty contributing artists and reprinted excerpts of classic texts. It also features a selection of contextual essays contributed by an international group of critics, writers, curators, and scholars.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780935573527

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 August 2013

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago,David & Alfred Smart Museum,US

Contributors:

Edited by Stephanie Smith

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 3.0mm

Width: 21.0mm

Height: 30.0mm

Weight: 1673g

Pages: 380

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Stephanie Smith is deputy director and chief curator at the Smart Museum of Art, an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago, and a founding member of its Open Practice Committee. She is an editor of the journal Afterall, to which she is also a regular contributor. She curated the exhibition Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art.