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Books : Play With Your Food |
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by: Joost Elffers
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.81 EAN: 9781556706301 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 1556706308 Label: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang Manufacturer: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 109 Publication Date: 1997-09 Publisher: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang Sales Rank: 246848 Studio: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang Editorial Review: Put a navel orange on its side, pip facing you. See anything yet? What do the folds suggest? Carve ovals and insert beans and sliced almonds--voila, two eyes. Cut ears from the sides of the orange and pull them forward. Now you have it--a cat's face of amazing and endearing character. But that's only the beginning. Learn to make artichoke-leaf aphids, bok choy buffalos, okra grasshoppers, green-pepper camels, and pear mice--just a few of the 75 ingenious projects. Consisting primarily of color photos of the creatures, first in portraiture and then in step-by-step 'recipes' for their creation, Play with Your Food teaches readers above all to see. In addition to limning techniques, the minimal text provides a short look at manmade and natural imagery that suggests or embodies the possibilities of metamorphosis. Then it's on to the creatures themselves and the fun of constructing them. Anyone who enjoys play and the magic of transformation will want Joost's book--and having seen it, will never look at eatables in the same way again. --Arthur Boehm Related Items:
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 Rating:  - do not order or buy anything from this seller !!!!!i ordered this book March 7 2009 & it is now April 9th & and NO BOOK IN SIGHT. The seller has my money But i do not have my book. I have attempted to contact the seller, however he has failed to reply. I have had to file a complaint with amazon.com and i am trying to get my money returned avoiled this seller..................... Rating:  - A lesson on seeing should consist of images, not words.I came here expecting to see nothing but 5 stars reviews, but I guess the fact that there's anything below enthusiastic admiration explains why artists in our society continue to live in poverty. The very visual nature of this book (15 pages of intro on the front, 20 pages of instructions on the back, and some sixty pages of uncaptioned, hilariously cute color photographs) is owed to the lesson it is trying to teach: to "see" the world around us differently. In the case of Play With Your Food, it is fruits and vegetables that Elffers shows us how to "find" faces and shapes within. If one wants to learn about music, one listens. If one wants to learn a new way of seeing, there's very little reason to read. That's one degree removed from the fact. Though many will conclude it is a book for children, that is a narrow perspective. The first 15 pages is one of the few clearly written explanations of the essence visual artists deal with: to not just look, but to see. Some of the greatest artists in history have taught us to look around and discover the new light around the sights we take for granted. Guiseppe Arcimboldo, Charles LeBrun, the Buddhists, Rorscharch inkblots, and Leonardo Da Vinci are enlisted in a short essay on association, mental imaging, and the anthropomorphic tendencies of human interpretation. The author even has time to pen a defense against moms who warned us about playing with our food. I found the instruction pages in the back short and to-the-point. Some of the best creative instructors give you the tools, but they try not to exert too much creative influence. I think Elffers succeeds here. A more comprehensive guide will veer dangerously close to spawning mindless copying. Readers who walked away from this book inspired, will undoubtedly be rewarded with a valuable lesson: to look at everything around them a second time, and see something they may not have before. Rating:  - A good Library book..,This is interesting and amusing to look through ONCE. I wish instead of buying it I just took it out of a library. I had hoped I'd get loads of ideas to add on a plate of food gifts or something but there was nothing much to learn here except for the fact that Black eyed beans make good "eyes". The great photography sold this book. I passed it on to my daughter who is more artistic than I. With just a little inspiration she will do some great pumpkin carvings ETC. However, if you're not born with artistic abilities don't expect it from this book. The real point of the book is for the author to make money.., mission accomplished! Rating: - A cute book on food art ... but overly thin on contentA friend of mine gave me a copy of this book a few months back. I'd flipped through it a couple of time, but I finally got around to reading it cover to cover today. It's a fast read ... the edition I have is only 109 pages, and most of them are photos. I finished it during a 1 hour workout at the gym earlier today. The author basically takes the approach of looking at various fruits and vegetables like a rorschach diagram ... selecting oddly shaped examples and looking at them from all different angles, while looking for standouts that display some unusual inner character or expressiveness - and then, with only a few minor cuts and tweaks, turns them into living art. It's a very clever book, and some of the results that the author achieves are extraordinary. I was particularly impressed with the author's pumpkin carving ability. In any case, this book is more about making art than it is about carving food ... the produce is just the photographic subject. Nits ? I thought the author dealt with the subject a bit too briefly and narrowly. Although the book is 109 pages, 90% of that page count is mostly photos ... the book can be read in well under 1 hour. I'd like to have seem more page count devoted to discussion and things like carving technique. I'd also have like to see the author include some examples taking a less ultra-simple and ultra-minimalist course ... by doing some more extensive carving and alteration. Things like carving melons, and cutting interesting & amusing garnishes for parties. Such material could have taken the book a bit out of the land of avante garde whimsy, and into the realm of practical home entertaining. Still, for what it is, the book is very enjoyable. It's still coffee table fodder, to be sure, but enjoyable none the less.
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