Antidiets of the Avant-Garde

Discussing an aspect of the European avant-garde that has often been neglected-its relationship to the embodied experience of food, its sensation, and its consumption-Cecilia Novero exposes the surprisingly key roles that food plays in the theoretical foundations and material aesthetics of a broad stratum of works ranging from the Italian Futurist Cookbook to the magazine Dada , Walter Benjamin's writings on eating and cooking, Daniel Spoerri's Eat Art , and the French New Realists. Starting fro