THE WAY WE EAT: AN EXHIBITION AT THE ART GALLERY OF NSW – TAASA Review March 2021
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This article was originally found in the March 2021 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 10).
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Yin Cao Jingdezhen ware blue-and-white bowl with lotus scroll design, China, Ming dynasty, Xuande–Chenghua periods (1426–87), porcelain with underglaze blue floral decoration.
Purchased 1975 G eorge Orwell once said: ‘A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into; the other functions and faculties may be more godlike, but in point of time they come afterwards’.
He claimed that: ‘…it could be plausibly argued that changes of diet are more important than changes of dynasty or even of religion’ (Orwell 1937: 91). The exhibition The way we eat, at the Art Gallery of NSW from early April 2021 to mid-2022, will bring together works of art in a range of media...