Recipes for the Future
Traces of Past Utopias inThe Futurist Cookbook
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3972079 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Enrico Cesaretti (University of Virginia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 841-856 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770903363920 |
| OpenAlex | W2135489949 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay suggests an interpretation of F. T. Marinetti and Fillìa's La cucina futurista (The Futurist Cookbook) as a fundamentally utopian text that re-proposes and carries into the twentieth century some aspects of the nineteenth-century utopian tradition. In particular, it intends to further investigate the possibility that the alimentary discourse in La cucina shares some similarities with, and was influenced by the “gastrosophic” theory on the social role of meals and gastronomy, originally conceived by Charles Fourier (1772–1837), one of the founding figures of the French utopian tradition. While strengthening the connection between futurism and French utopian thought and reasserting the centrality of food aesthetics in the avant-garde, this analysis provides another perspective on futurism's contradictory relation to tradition, exemplified in this additional re-appropriation and, to quote Cinzia Sartini Blum, “recycling of the past.”
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Futurist · Linguistics · Literature · Sociology · Utopia · Visual arts · History · Philosophy · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |