Food as social ritual personal liberation and spiritual alchemy from Alison Knowles and Adrian Piper to Agnes Denes and Andy WarholIn More Than the Eyes writer Ellen Mara De Wachter considers the ways in which food when used as a material in contemporary art confronts subverts and ultimately brings us to our senses. Focusing on artists working between 1960 and 2000 the book shows how we have become restricted by a hierarchy that values sight and reason above other senses and how encounters with food in art can help us break this bind. By putting food at the center of the highly visual art world the artists in this book quicken a range of sensations beyond visual perception helping us access and liberate aspects of our experience that have been ignored or suppressed.