What Artists Eat: A Visual Guide

Art as food: food as art. There’s a strong analogy in there somewhere, laden down though it is by burdensome intellectual squabbling. The image of the artist in their studio sitting down to a meal, to revive and to nourish, however, is very easy to come by thanks to a recent swathe of books on the topic. Most recently Olafur Eliasson, the Icelandic-Danish artist, invited the world to his lunchtime table in Phaidon’s The Kitchen, to reveal an enviable commitment to feeding his 30…