Issues
There is no doubt that food ingredients can be used to create art. We can carve sculptures with carrots, and draw pictures on cappuccino foam. But can food in itself be a special form of art? What is art anyway? Is there anything distinctive about how food might function as art?
Resources
- Telfer, E. (1996). Food as art. In Food for thought: Philosophy and food. London: Routledge. Read the last section “A Minor Art” of chapter 3 [HKU library has ebook http://library.hku.hk/record=b2588923]
- Ch. 7 of Nigel Warburton Philosophy : the basics.
- http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/art-definition/
CCHU9005 Food and Values 