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Play With Your Food by Joost Elffers, Saxton Freymann (1997, Hardcover) 
Play With Your Food by Joost Elffers, Saxton Freymann (1997, Hardcover)

 
Play With Your Food by Joost Elffers, Saxton Freymann (1997, Hardcover)

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1556706308
ISBN-13: 9781556706301
Product ID: EPID1023762
Description: An entertaining and thought-provoking gift book of visual puns in which plants and vegetables appear transformed into members of the animal kingdom.
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Synopsis
An entertaining and thought-provoking gift book of visual puns in which plants and vegetables appear transformed into members of the animal kingdom.

Details
Publication Date:1997-09-01

Size
Length:109 pages
Height:11.3 in
Width:8.8 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:30.4 oz

Publisher's Note
"Play with Your Food" lets readers turn a radish into a "mouse", a line of unpeeled garlic cloves into a family of "ducks", and a lemon into a funny "pig". No special techniques or equipment are necessary, and any fruit or vegetable can be used. The 150 color photos show readers who to make the magical transformations, and begin looking at every trip to the greengrocer as another trip to the "zoo".

Industry Reviews
Far from the prim and proper art galleries that foster awe for a far-removed artist, Elffers's works are intentionally honest, earthy, and replicable. With many forms of art, 'there is a hierarchy of the artist and the audience, there is a sense of intimidation,' he notes. 'I like to empower people to use their own creativity.' This is especially important with children, Elffers adds. Few 10-year-olds are ready for the Mona Lisa, but if you open their eyes and thinking with things they can understand and duplicate themselves--like the food creations--a new world of creativity opens up. 'Then,' he says, 'you can take them to a museum.'
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Neff

Some 150 weirdly hilarious photographs document . . . pear bears, lemon pigs, okra grasshoppers and bunches of wild-haired people who are really leeks and scallions (the leeks look fashionable, the scallions panic-stricken) are only the beginning. Minimal means are used to produce these transformations; for garlic-clove geese, for example, the peel of each clove has merely been twiddled to suggest the head and neck of the bird in question, while the bell-pepper rabbit is achieved by the simple additions of big almond teeth and snow-pea lop ears. . . . As a practical note, [Effers] suggests that having fun with veggies might help a fussy-eating child to see the light. Perhaps, but doesn't it seem a bit heartless to boil a brussels sprout that you've learned to love as a pig or a goldfish or a hippo?
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Ferrell

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