Video: Served to eat, go watch: photo cycle about "literary" still lifes
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Sergei Aksakov once said about Gogol that if fate had not made him a great poet, he would certainly have been an artist-cook. Indeed, there are writers whose works are not only interesting to read, but also “tasty”. Carried away by descriptions of food in fiction, the designer Dianah Fried created a photo cycle, in the framework of which she set the tables in the same way as in the famous "culinary" scenes of the classics.
“On plates painted with flowers of paradise with a wide black border, thin slices of salmon and pickled eels lay in thin slices. On a heavy board is a piece of cheese in tears, and in a silver tub lined with snow - caviar. Between the plates there are several thin glasses and three crystal decanters with multi-colored vodka "- who among us does not remember these mouth-watering descriptions from Bulgakov's" Dog's Heart ". True, Diana Fride was inspired by the novels not by Russians, but by foreign masters of the word, in particular, Harper Lee, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll and others.
The project was named "Fictitious Dishes"Diana Fried started working on it while studying at the School of Design in Rhode Island. Soon, the girl realized that recreating literary dishes is a fascinating activity. She decided not to be satisfied with what has already been achieved and now she is happy to collect all the new original "recipes". Among the most entertaining are pork kidney, Ulysses' favorite dish, eleven different ways bananas, as described in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and gourmet pork and turkey meat dishes served at the Great Gatsby's buffet.
The photo project turned out to be so original that the publisher Harper Collins (known to readers of the Culturology. RF website for the publication of a book about the adventures of Russell the sheep) offered Diana Fride assistance. As a result, the album “Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature’s Most Memorable Meal” was released, in which each photograph is accompanied by excerpts from works of art, as well as a selection of interesting facts about the author of the novel and about the work itself.
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