Food as Art

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Arguing about art: Food as Art The famous English chef, Dione Lucas, once said: "The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living." People have different answers for the definition of art. What I’m going to analyse in my essay is whether food can be classified as art or not. To begin with, I’ll refer to Elisabeth Telfer analysis on the aesthetic appreciation of food. Even so in her essay hasn’t posited a simple “Yes” to this question, I found it interesting and educational as well, since while reading it, made me think whether it makes sense to say that food and drink can sometimes be work of art. Besides, to answer that question is important to know the nature of art, and think hard if drink and food can qualify in this context. Firstly, I am going to summarize what Elizabeth Telfer wrote about works of art. She analyses what work of art can be. She divides “the work of art” in two categories. The first one is: classifying. To explain it briefly, if the manufacturer or the artist made it to be looked as work of art, then it should be treated as one, even if that work of art is only a pile of metal pipes. According to Urmson’s definition, “an artefact primarily intended for aesthetic consideration.” The word primarily, make the object, even supposing if it is a chair, rather than sat in, to be looked as art, if the maker indents to. Subsequently, she begins considering whether food and drink are art in classifying sense. Sometimes cooks intend their meals “to be savoured, appraised, thought about, discussed- and many eaters consider them in this way.” Cooks, want to make a meal that can be seen as feeding and at the same time to be noticed. They want to design dishes, and we can see that in the cookbooks. The second category is the evaluative. Telfer criticizes whether the object like the pile of

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