Aesthetics of Food Porn
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Enticing food photography which stimulates its viewers’ cravings, often given a dismissive label “food porn,” is one of the most popular contents in contemporary digital media. In this paper, I argue that the label disguises different ways in which a viewer can engage with it. In particular, food porn enables us to engage in cross-modal gustatory imaginings of a specific kind and an image’s capacity to afford such imaginings can contribute to its artistic merit.
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Tooming, U. (2021). Aesthetics of Food Porn. Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana De Filosofía, 53(157), 127–150. https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2021.1248
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Perceive”, in F. Dorsch and F. Macpherson (eds.), Perceptual Memory and Perceptual Imagination, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 161–185.
Bryson, N., 1990, Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
Bullough, E., 1957, Aesthetics: Lectures and Essays, Bowes and Bowes, London.
Carroll, N., 2015, “Defending the Content Approach to Aesthetic Experience”, Metaphilosophy, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 171–188.
Carroll, N., 2002, “Aesthetic Experience Revisited”, The British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 145–168.
Coward, R., 1984, Female Desires: How They Are Sought, Bought and Packaged, Grove Weidenfeld, New York.
Currie, G., 2010, “Tragedy”, Analysis, vol.70, no. 4, pp. 632–638.
Doggett, T. and A. Egan, 2012, “How We Feel about Terrible, Non-Existent Mafiosi”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 77–306.
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Matthen, M., 2015, “Play, Skill, and The Origins of Perceptual Art”, British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 173–197.
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Piqueras-Fiszman, B. and C. Spence, 2012, “The Influence of the Color of the Cup on Consumers’ Perception of a Hot Beverage”, Journal of Sensory Studies, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 324–331.
Podro, M., 1998, Depiction, Yale University Press, London.
Prescott, J., 2015, “Multisensory Processes in Flavour Perception and Their Influence on Food Choice”, Current Opinion in Food Science, vol. 3, pp. 47–52.
Prince, R., 2014, “How We’re Fed 434 Hours of TV Cookery a Week – But the More They Show, the Less We Cook”, Daily Mail Online, 26th September. Downloaded from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2771553/How-fed-434-hours-TV-cookery-week-cook.html [accessed: 01/11/2018]
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Schopenhauer, A., 1969 [1819], The World as Will and Representation, vol. 1, trans. E.E. Payne, Dover, New York.
Simmons, W.K., A. Martin and L.W. Barsalou, 2005, “Pictures of Appetizing Foods Activate Gustatory Cortices for Taste and Reward”, Cerebral Cortex, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 1602–1608.
Sinhababu, N., 2017, Humean Nature: How Desire Explains Action, Thought, and Feeling, Oxford University Press, New York.
Small, D.M. and J. Prescott, 2005, “Odor/Taste Integration And the Perception of Flavor, Experimental Brain Research”, vol. 166, no. 3–4, pp. 345–357.
Spence, C., 2017, Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating, Viking, New York.
Spence, C., 2015, “On the Psychological Impact of Food Colour”, Flavour, vol. 4, no. 21, pp. 1–6.
Spence, C., K. Okajima, A.D. Cheok, O. Petit and C. Michel, 2016, “Eating with Our Eyes: From Visual Hunger to Digital Satiation”, Brain and Cognition, vol. 110, pp. 53–63.
Spence, C. and B. Piqueras-Fiszman, 2014, The Perfect Meal: The Multisensory Science of Food and Dining, John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey.
Spence, C., C.A. Levitan, M.U. Shankar and M. Zampini, 2010, “Does Food Color Influence Taste and Flavor Perception in Humans?”, Chemosensory Perception, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 68–84.
Stecker, R. 2006, “Aesthetic Experience and Aesthetic Value”, Philosophy Compass, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1–10.
Sweeney, K.W., 2012, “Hunger Is the Best Sauce: the Aesthetics of Food”, in D.M. Kaplan (ed.), The Philosophy of Food, University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 52–68.
Toepel, U., J.F. Knebel, J. Hudry, J. le Coutre and M.M. Murray, 2009, “The Brain Tracks the Energetic Value in Food Images”, Neuroimage, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 967–974.
Uidhir, C.M., 2009, “Why Pornography Can’t Be Art”, Philosophy and Literature, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 193–203.
Van Brabandt, P. and J. Prinz, 2012, “Why do Porn Films Suck?”, in H. Maes and J. Levinson (eds.), Art and Pornography: Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 161–190.
Velasco, C., M. Obrist, O. Petit and C. Spence, 2018, “Multisensory Technology for Flavor Augmentation: A Mini Review”, Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 9, pp. 1–6.
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