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Tonie Roos - "Gâteaux"
Alexej Koschkarov 2003 video still -Tortenschlacht, Pie Fight
Die Ästhetik des Geschmacks und der Versuchung - The Aesthetics of Taste and Temptation -
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Tonie Roos - "Gâteaux"
Rund um die Welt… Around the World…
Rund um die Welt in 80 Konditoreien, oder wie herrlich sind Blumen in Farben in Kuchen. Voila, die Ästhetik des Geschmacks und der Versuchung. Und dann "poof"; die Kunst allein ist die Erinnerung an diese Freude. (John Sevcik)
Around the world in 80 pâtisseries, or how delicious are flowers in paints in pastries. Voila; the aesthetics of taste and temptation. And then poof; Art alone is the memory of that delight. ( John Sevcik)
Alexej Koschkarov 2003 video still -Tortenschlacht, Pie Fight
"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche"
"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of theFrench phrase "qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly said by a French princess upon learning that the peasants had no bread. As brioche is a luxury bread enriched with eggs and butter, it would reflect the princess's obliviousness to the nature of a famine.
Although commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette there is no record of these words ever having been uttered by her; they first appear in the confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, his putative autobiographical work (completed in 1769, when Marie Antoinette was 13), where he wrote the following:
"Enfin je me rappelai le pis-aller d’une grande princesse à qui l’on disait que les paysans n’avaient pas de pain, et qui répondit : Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.- Finally I recalled the last resort of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: "Let them eat brioche."
Rousseau does not name the "great princess" and there is speculation that he invented the anecdote, which has no other sources.
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