Laatste Kans In aller Munde – Hartmut B�hme Birte Hinric Ulrike Vedder Andreas Beitin

Mouth, lips, tongue, and teeth―speech, pain, and screech―eating, swallowing, spouting off, and spitting―lust and passion: the oral cavity is an extremely stimulating zone of the body, in the truest sense of the word. Science and medicine are not the only fields that have investigated it, though. From antiquity to the present day, art and cultural history have done the same. The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg has pursued the wide-ranging path of this motif’s history in order to present the first comprehensive show ab…