{"product_id":"culinary-palettes-the-visuality-of-food-in-postrevolutionary-mexican-art-hardcover","title":"Culinary Palettes: The Visuality of Food in Postrevolutionary Mexican Art - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLesley A. Wolff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2025 Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication Award, SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cp\u003ePostrevolutionary 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\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lesley A. Wolff is an assistant professor of art and design at the University of Tampa. She is coeditor of the volume \u003ci\u003eNourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 10.2 x 7.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46546313674949,"sku":"9781477330814","price":104.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/rv6KDPWkqx9781477330814.webp?v=1784227058","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/culinary-palettes-the-visuality-of-food-in-postrevolutionary-mexican-art-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}