Kenneth Bendiner is Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and is the author of An Introduction to Victorian Painting (1985) and The Art of Ford Madox Brown (1998).
Food in Painting loads its table with good things to see. The analysis is shrewd; the commentaries incisive; the illustrations - except when satire or sermon appears on the painter's menu - suitably mouth-watering. Bendiner shows the variety of symbolic flavours in food-themed art. However, unlike many art historians, he's not so blinded by symbolism that he fails to savour all the evidence about changes in diet, cooking and taste. A visual and mental feast. The Independent ... an intriguing and provocative study ... Reading Bendiner's book leaves one with the general tools to consider images of food in Western art from the Renaissance to the present in relation to one another, resulting in a rewarding game for the reader/viewer and a refreshing contribution to the field of art history. Gastronomica Totally refreshing and a pleasure to read ... an extraordinary contribution. -- Robert Rosenblum
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