"This book appeared on the occasion of the exhibition entitled "Blood: perspectives on art, power, politics and pathology," held at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst and the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, from November 11, 2001-January 27, 2002"--T.p. verso.
Errata slip inserted.
Contents:
Perspectives on art, power, politics and pathology / James M. Bradburne -- "My blood for thee" / Christina Holtorf -- Magia Sanguinis : blood and magic in classical antiquity / Mino Gabriele -- Bleeding hearts, bleeding parts : sacrificial blood in Maya society / Giusseppe Orefici -- Sanguis Suavis : blood between microcosm and macrocosm / Valentina Conticelli -- A fountain filled with blood : representations of Christ's blood from the middle ages to the eighteenth century / James Clifton -- Blood : sacrifice and redemption in Christian iconography / Miri Rubin -- The pump : Harvey and the circulation of the blood / Jonathan Miller -- Blood : the pure, clear, lovely, and amiable juice / Jonathan Miller -- "The predestination of our Habsburg dynasty" : Habsburg marriage policies and the phenomenon of "pure blood" in European dynasties -- The blood of tsars : the Romanovs and the Russian imperial house / Stanislaw Dumin -- Self-made man : the shift from blood to genetics / Jonathan Miller -- "Blood is a most particular fluid: " blood as the object of scientific discovery and Romantic mystification / Annette Weber -- Transfusion, with teeth / Kim Pelis -- Blood-transmitted diseases / Claudia Eberhard-Metzger -- Reflections on blood in contemporary art / Peter Weiermair -- The culture of violence and the politics of colorful sweaters : Benetton's "world without borders" / Henry A. Giroux -- The world's legacy is in our blood : a look at the first century of genetic research / Joachim Pietzsch
