The Museum of Modern Art Artists’ Cookbook
Conway, Madeleine. The Museum of Modern Art Artists’ Cookbook, 155 Recipes, Conversations with Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors. First Edition. 1977. Spiral-bound book in very good minus condition—mild creasing to the front cover.
Artists are often remembered for what they placed on canvas, not what they put on the table. This snapshot of the New York art scene, circa the 1970s, gathers recipes and conversations with thirty painters and sculptors associated with the Museum of Modern Art, revealing a more domestic side of some of the twentieth century’s most celebrated creative figures. Contributors include Robert Motherwell, Salvador Dalí, Christo, and Andy Warhol, whose culinary tastes prove less eccentric than their public reputations might suggest. A recurring theme is simplicity. Whether discussing art or food, many of the contributors display the same appreciation for balance, proportion, and restraint that informed their work. Part cookbook, part oral history, and part artist portrait, it reveals the human side of people more often encountered through museum walls.
“I think a really great restaurant can only be run by a madman, a man obsessed with quality—like an artist.”
--Robert Motherwell