Blood
Subtitle: art, power, politics and pathology
By: edited by James M. Bradburne ; with contributions by James Clifton ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bradburne, James M.; Clifton, James, 1958-; MAK Frankfurt.; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Munich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9783791326009
Subjects: Blood -- Exhibitions; Blood in art -- Exhibitions; Medicine in art -- Exhibitions; Medicine -- History -- Exhibitions; Symbolism in art
Genres: Exhibitions
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst and the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Nov. 11, 2001-Jan. 27, 2002.

Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Perspectives on art, power, politics and pathology / James M. Bradburne; title: "My blood for thee" / Christina Holtorf; title: Magia Sanguinis : blood and magic in classical antiquity / Mino Gabriele; title: Bleeding hearts, bleeding parts : sacrificial blood in Maya society / Giusseppe Orefici; title: Sanguis Suavis : blood between microcosm and macrocosm / Valentina Conticelli; title: A fountain filled with blood : representations of Christ's blood from the middle ages to the eighteenth century / James Clifton; title: Blood : sacrifice and redemption in Christian iconography / Miri Rubin; title: The pump : Harvey and the circulation of the blood / Jonathan Miller; title: Blood : the pure, clear, lovely, and amiable juice / Jonathan Miller; title: "The predestination of our Habsburg dynasty" : Habsburg marriage policies and the phenomenon of "pure blood" in European dynasties; title: The blood of tsars : the Romanovs and the Russian imperial house / Stanislaw Dumin; title: Self-made man : the shift from blood to genetics / Jonathan Miller; title: "Blood is a most particular fluid: " blood as the object of scientific discovery and Romantic mystification / Annette Weber; title: Transfusion, with teeth / Kim Pelis; title: Blood-transmitted diseases / Claudia Eberhard-Metzger; title: Reflections on blood in contemporary art / Peter Weiermair; title: The culture of violence and the politics of colorful sweaters : Benetton's "world without borders" / Henry A. Giroux; title: The world's legacy is in our blood : a look at the first century of genetic research / Joachim Pietzsch.