The Modern Art Cookbook

Food has always been a favourite subject of the world's artists, from still-lifes by Matisse and Picasso to the works of Claes Oldenberg and Andy Warhol. But how do artists eat?

The Modern Art Cookbook provides a window into how both great and lesser-known modern artists, writers, and poets ate, cooked, depicted, and wrote about food. A cornucopia of life in the kitchen and in the studio throughout the twentieth century and beyond, the book explores a wide-ranging panoply of artworks of food, cooking, and eating from Europe and the Americas—from the early moderns through the Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, Futurists, and Surrealists up to today's art—as well as writing about food from contemporary novelists, writers, and poets.

Beautifully illustrated and often surprising, this new paperback edition is a joyous guide to the art of food.