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Culinary Arts: Food and the Arts

This is a guide to information resources in the field of culinary arts.

Glorious Food

Food has provided inspiration for artists of all types throughout the ages. Investigate books and other resources about food in the movies, in music, in fine art, and more. Or just check out a few examples.

Food and the Muse

A Few Examples

H. de Heem (17th century), Still Life. Dutch oil painting. Lush display of fruit, oysters, greenery, and silver salt cellar piled on small corner table.

Credo Reference - Bridgeman Images: DeAgostini Library

Still life with onions, 1889, by Vincent van Gogh. Onions in a bowl on a table, with a candle, newspaper, pipe, drawing. Beside table, a jug and a bottle of wine

Credo Reference - Still life with onions, 1889, by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) / De Agostini Picture Library / The Bridgeman Art Library

: A huge Russian soldier about to feed from a pot inscribed 'Little European States', German cartoon comment on Soviet Russia's territorial hunger (colour litho), German Photographer (20th Century)

Credo Reference - German cartoon comment on Soviet Russia's territorial hunger
Bridgeman Images: Peter Newark American Pictures

Andy Warhol: Campbell’s Soup Can (detail) . Paint on canvas. Can of Campbell's tomato soup on a white ground.

Museum of Modern Art, New York City Any Warhol exhibit

Frida Kahlo. Oil on canvas mounted on board, 1951. Vividly colored fruit on a table, with an emerald green parrot, against a cobalt background.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Judy Chicago: The Dinner Party, 1974-79, mixed media

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party 1979. Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Collection of the Brooklyn Museum