The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance by Barkan, Leonard
The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance by Barkan, Leonard

The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance

An enticing history of food and drink in Western art and culture Eating and drinking can be...
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The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance by Barkan, Leonard

The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance

$100.47
The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance by Barkan, Leonard

The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance

$100.47
Author: Leonard Barkan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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An enticing history of food and drink in Western art and culture

Eating and drinking can be aesthetic experiences as well as sensory ones. The Hungry Eye takes readers from antiquity to the Renaissance to explore the central role of food and drink in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and statecraft.

In this beautifully illustrated book, Leonard Barkan provides an illuminating meditation on how culture finds expression in what we eat and drink. Plato's Symposium 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 Deipnosophistae--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.

A book for anyone who relishes the pleasures of the table, The Hungry Eye is an erudite and uniquely personal look at all the glorious ways that food and drink have transfigured Western arts and high culture.

Author: Leonard Barkan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.15lbs
Size: 10.80h x 8.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780691211466

About the Author
Leonard Barkan is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His books include Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures (Princeton), Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture, and Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Twitter @LeonardBarkan
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