Note on Food

Note on Food

A note on food and leisure culture.

This note from LeRoy Neiman looks at the position of food in leisure culture. The document itself is comprised of a variety of fragmented images from elite settings (e.g. “your food is being plated as hurried to the table”, “Well healed older men of financial position”, “cosmopolitan opulence”, and “velvet rope”), which tacitly point to both the artist’s process of seeing as well as acknowledgement of said images in a larger social frame. Overall, the document is then testament not only to Neiman’s method but also his persistent sociological interests.

LeRoy Neiman

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Notes

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New York (N.Y.) New York

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She was a perishable as a black truffle
Beach culture
Bastions
as perishable as a black truffle - staple of French Kitchen
velvet rope
Palace of High Cuisine
cosmopolitan opulence
kitchen laboratories
your food is being plated as hurried to the table
caviar setting atop an oyster glistens and
sparkles like diamonds in the mid-day sun
predator (lunchtime chatter)
(FLAT FISH)
Don't just eat - nourish yourself
Don't drink - taste
Well healed older men of financial position
dine in expensive restaurant (excluding table for 2) with well maintained
and dressed (anniversaries and such) spouses, or young fresh
daughters in college (graduations and such eve teen grand-daughters
-- (special twosome) Lady friends of career women
Royal Flush K.Q.J> 10 of […]
Full House
Rocky Graziano "I never stole nuttin' unless it began with an "A" - a car-a truck - painting A radio etc

Pen and felt-tipped pen on paper.