{"product_id":"culinary-palettes-the-visuality-of-food-in-postrevolutionary-mexican-art-hardback-9781477330814","title":"Culinary Palettes; The Visuality of Food in Postrevolutionary Mexican Art (Hardback) 9781477330814","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCulinary Palettes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Visuality of Food in Postrevolutionary Mexican Art\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLesley A. Wolff (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477330814\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, one 16-page color insert, 55 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.739 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eCulinary Palettes\u003c\/i\u003e is an exciting book that takes the scholarship on post-revolutionary Mexican art and culture in a promising and creative new direction. It situates the intersection of visual studies, art history, and food studies as they pertain to post-revolutionary Mexico and the visuality of foodways-in art, cookbook illustrations, menus, tourist ephemera, restaurants, home economics manuals, and advertisements that were essential for imagining the nation.\u003c\/div\u003e - Mary K. Coffey, Dartmouth University, author of How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eCulinary Palettes\u003c\/i\u003e offers sharp readings of Mexican modernity since 1940, a period of intensive but uneven development, entailing processes of industrialization, migration, and consumerism. Wolff’s notion of “foodways as visual praxis” and emphasis on embodiment and cultural labor make a strong contribution to a still-emerging scholarly literature emphasizing tensions between materiality, visuality, and coloniality. As a scholar of Mexican art and as a passionate student of Mexican foodways, I found this to be a very creative and exciting work of scholarship for the fields of art history, cultural studies, and food studies centered in Mexico.\u003c\/div\u003e - George F. Flaherty, University of Texas at Austin, author of Hotel Mexico: Dwelling on the '68 Movement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow the visual culture of food, cookery, and consumption played a central role in the making of postrevolutionary Mexico.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Postrevolutionary Mexico City was a site of anxious nation-building, as rampant modernization converged and clashed with the nation’s growing nostalgia for its pre-Columbian heritage. During this volatile period, food became a meaningful symbol for a Mexican citizenry seeking new modes of national participation. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCulinary Palettes\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the artistic invocation of food cultures became an arena in which to negotiate the political entanglements of postrevolutionary Mexico. Lesley Wolff casts a nuanced eye on the work of visual artists such as Tina Modotti, Carlos GonzÁlez, and Rufino Tamayo, who nurtured the symbolic and performative power of iconic foods such as pulque, mole poblano, and watermelon. Through analysis of a wide array of visual evidence, including paintings, architecture, vintage postcards, menus, and cookbooks, \u003ci\u003eCulinary Palettes \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates how these artists positioned their work within a broad visual landscape that relied upon the power of Mexican foodways in the urban and national imagination. In the studios of modernists, Wolff argues, artistic production, foodways, and Indigeneity proved to be mutually constitutive-and at times weaponized-agents in articulating competing claims to a new nationhood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Illustrations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Prologue \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction. Entremeses \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. Bebidas: Pulque, Breast Milk, and the Nation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. Guisos: Mole Poblano, a Blend of Colonial Labor and Modern Leisure \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. Frutas: Mr. Watermelon\/SeÑ\u003cbr\u003eor SandÍ\u003cbr\u003ea and the Roots of Corporate Capitalism \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion. Bocadillos: Concentric Colonialities, or a Tale of Two Mexicos \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Appendix. Recipes for Mole Poblano or Mole de Guajolote \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591020867864,"sku":"9781477330814","price":37.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/culinary-palettes-the-visuality-of-food-in-postrevolutionary-mexican-art-hardback-9781477330814","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}