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After dissecting the history of veils in the art in her first book, Kessler has turned her attention to the culinary delights of France in her new book, Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late Nineteenth-Century French Art.

Marni Kessler will host a virtual event with the University of Kansas Hall Center for the Humanities and the Lawrence Public Library on Wednesday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m. for a discussion of her new book, Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late Nineteenth-Century French Art as part of the Meet KU's Authors series. In Discomfort Food, scholar Marni Reva Kessler trains her inquisitive eye on the depictions of food in nineteenth-century French art. Arguing that disjointed senses of anxiety, nostalgia, and melancholy underlie the superficial abundance in works by Manet, Degas, and othe...

Marni Kessler will host a virtual event with the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association on Friday, March 5 for a discussion of her new book, DISCOMFORT FOOD.