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Article: Eat Fat.(BookForum)
- Article from:
- Artforum International
- Article date:
- November 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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In Eat Fat, Cornell University French professor Richard Klein, a self-described "fat layman," believes he can overturn medical wisdom and hypnotize people into wanting to be fat. He means to achieve this through repetitive, incantatory language, coaxing readers to view a plastic surgeon's oily blob of artificial fat as a "suckling pig" or "a beautiful fetal child." Readers who can make this leap are encouraged to try others, slowly working up to the biggest hurdle of all: deriving an erotic charge from a naked photo of Teighlor, the 5'6", 512-pound star of the heterosexual "fat porn" bible, Plumpers.
And yet, Klein's book did make me rethink my relationship to food ...
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