Mouth, lips, tongue, and teeth, speech, pain, and screaming, eating, devouring, spitting, and spewing, lust and stimulating: The oral cavity is an extremely attractive bodily zone. Not only have science and medicine always been involved in the exploration of the oral cavity, but also art and cultural history, from antiquity to the present.

This richly illustrated publication, accompanying the exhibition In aller Munde. From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman, offers a comprehensive art-historical overview of the wide-ranging visual and cultural history of the oral, extending far beyond the exhibition itself. The volume also explores the mouth and its many functions through the lenses of film history, ethnology, literary studies, and architecture.

With texts by Andreas Beitin, Hartmut Böhme, Horst Bredekamp & Kolja Thurner, Roland Garve, Birte Hinrichsen, Olaf Knellessen, Harald Lemke, Karin Leonhard, Jürgen Müller, Uta Ruhkamp, Marcus Stiglegger and Ulrike Vedder.

Published by Hatje Cantz, English version, ca. 350 pages, 350 illustrations.