"With around forty entries, the Lexikon der Lebensmittel als Kunstmaterial offers an overview of the most important works of contemporary art in which real food is used artistically. The entries describe and analyse the diverse development of the use of food in art from the 20th century to the present day. Food is an organic material and changes its form, its 'aggregate state' over the course of time. This presents artists, art theory and practice with challenges and at the same time opens up completely new approaches" --Publisher's website