ARTHI 3728 07 Topics in Art and Society: Food in Art - An Edible History
ARTHI 3806 01 Topics in Art and Society: Food in Art - An Edible History This course will examine the significance of food in human history as depicted in works of art: mosaics, frescos, paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, and contemporary installation and performance art. The history of human civilizations is inextricably bound to the history of food. Using objects of visual and material culture, we will survey the history of food and eating chronologically, from Prehistoric times to the present, and we will examine the role of food topically, analyzing its place in such aspects of human life and society as agriculture and commerce; famine and war; religion, ritual, and taboo; medical theory and diet; hospitality and power; eating and manners; technology and the household; age and gender; wealth and poverty; class and ethnicity; popular culture and national identity; changing tastes and the evolution of fashion; and myth and memory.
