Asger Jorn & Noël Arnaud - La Langue Verte et la Cuite

"La langue verte et la cuite is a book written in French by Asger Jorn and Noël Arnaud, and edited and published by Jean Jacques Pauvert in 1968. The book was written in reaction to the 1964 book Le cru et le cuit (The Raw and the Cooked) by Claude Lévi-Strauss, which was an examination of structuralist theory. The book contains numerous short essays with titles that parody French culinary dishes and texts that focus on Jorn and Arnaud's dissatisfaction with structuralist theory, coupled with historical greyscale images where the tongues of sculptures, people, and animals have been distinctly highlighted in colour. The book is 327 pages in length and contains over 300 images.

The book is part of the series "The Library of Alexandria:" Volume 1 consisted of a series of Situationist pamphlets, Volume 2 was Jorn's book Signes gravés sur les églises de l'Eure et du Calvados, Volume 3 was Jorn's and Pierre Wemaëre's booklet Le long voyage, and La langue verte et la cuite."

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