Blood : art, power, politics and pathology / edited by James M. Bradburne ; with contributions by James Clifton [and others].
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| Language: | English |
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Munich ; New York :
Prestel,
[2001]
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| Physical Description: | 272 pages : illustrations. |
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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.