Is it food? Is it art? Is it neither? Let your students use their aesthetic judgment to decide which it should be.

1. How would you classify these artworks that cross
the boundaries between art and food?
Eat: It is food. It should just be eaten.
Art: It is a work of art.
Out: It is neither. Throw it out!

4. Dole
Banana
Display

5. Doug Fishbone, 30,000
Bananas (2004), Trafalgar
Square, London, 2004

6. Bananas,
Tonico Lemo
Auad

7. BananaBike, Terry Axelson
Photo by Harrod Blank

8. Banana, Album
cover for Velvet
Underground,
Andy Warhol
1967

9. Banana-Choral,
Henry Rox

10. Gemma's cake by Ruth Seidler
of Jolly Be Bakery

11. Cake by
Beryl Ann
Byrd of Just
Fabulous
Pastries

12. Bear Cake Fail
by Jason Palmer

13. Hostess Cupcakes

14. Food Art, Kumiko Maeda

15. Dog Food Art, Pawlick (born Wm.
Kenneth Daw)

16. Bed of Ham, Cosimo Cavallero 2004

17. Mr. Herbivor of
the Dayalets,
James Lileks

18. Pies, Pies, Pies, Wayne Thiebaud 1961

19. Chocolate Motorcycle, Jim Victor

20. Eggs,
Nancy Bea
Miller