Food Aesthetics @ College Art Assoc Conference - 2/13/10

The College Art Association Conference, the largest annual gathering of art historians (and other scholars engaged in visual culture, artists and museum administrators), is taking place in Chicago this week, and there's one session in particular that may be of interest to LTHers:

Food Aesthetics
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Alison Pearlman, California State Polytechnic University

The Iconography of Kitchen Wallpaper
Gwendolyn Owens, McGill University and the Canadian Centre for Architecture

Outside the Plate: Food as Medium
Yael Raviv, New York University and Umami: Food and Art Festival

Bento Blogs: Women’s Expression in Japanese Food Culture
Klara B. Seddon, Institute of Cultural Research, New York

Mapping the Kitchen: Constraints and Opportunities in Food Design
Erin S. White, North Carolina State University

Conference registration information here