As well as being grounded in the domestic sphere and everyday life, food also becomes political for Picasso. Discover how Picasso’s depictions of food or attempts to solve problems of food shortages in wartime Spain reflect his thoughts on his drastically changed homeland.

Speaker

Dr Lara Anderson is Associate Professor in Spanish in the School of Languages and Linguistics. Lara Anderson has published extensively on many aspects of Spanish food discourse, such as culinary nationalism, food and politics and food and gender in leading international journals. She has, also, co-edited a journal issue entitled Transhispanic Food Cultural Studies, which delineates the emerging field of Hispanic Cultural Food Studies, inserting Hispanist voices into the arena of food studies and making food central to a praxis of cultural studies in the transhispanic world. She also writes about Australian food culture, in particular food multiculturalism, culinary xenophobia and refugee and migrant food initiatives. She has written, too, about Latin American food culture in the context of Australian food multiculturalism and can supervise on any of these areas.

This event is part of Saturday Series: The Many Layers of Picasso. Over four Saturdays, experts in art, culture and history from the University of Melbourne provide insights into the world of Picasso and his contemporaries.