{"product_id":"culinary-palettes-lesley-a-wolff-9781477330814","title":"Culinary Palettes: The Visuality of Food in Postrevolutionary Mexican Art","description":"\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\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\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 Gonz?lez, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lesley A. Wolff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 147733081X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477330814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Lesley A. Wolff","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46465670512895,"sku":"9781477330814","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9925a7a5-8868-4e20-ae7d-be4e5c21717d.jpg?v=1736346939","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/culinary-palettes-lesley-a-wolff-9781477330814","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}