ISBN:
3791326007
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379132599X
Language:
English
Pages:
271 S.
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zahlr. Ill., Kt.
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31 cm
DDC:
704.946
Keywords:
Blood Exhibitions
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Symbolic aspects
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Blood Exhibitions
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Religious aspects
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Blood Exhibitions
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Social aspects
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Genetics in art Exhibitions
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Ausstellungskatalog 2001
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Katalog
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Konferenzschrift
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Blut
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Kultur
;
Geschichte
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note: James M. Bradburne and Max Hollein 7 Preface -- James M. Bradburne 11 Perspectives on Art, Power, Politics and Pathology -- Christian Holtorf 21 "My blood for thee" -- Mino Gabriele 33 Magia Sanguinis: -- Blood and magic in Classical antiquity -- Giuseppe Orefici 41 Bleeding Hearts, Bleeding Parts: -- Sacrificial blood in Maya society -- Valentina Conticelli 55 Sanguis Suavis: -- Blood between microcosm and macrocosm -- James Clifton 65 A Fountain Filled with Blood: -- Representations of Christ's blood -- from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century -- Miri Rubin 89 Blood: Sacrifice and redemption -- in Christian iconography -- Jonathan Miller 101 The Pump: Harvey and the circulation of the blood -- Jonathan Miller 109 Blood: The pure, clear, lovely, and amiable juice -- Georg Kugler 121 "The predestination of our Habsburg dynasty": -- Habsburg marriage policies and the phenomenon -- of "pure blood" in European dynasties -- Stanislaw Dumin 137 The Blood of Tsars: -- The Romanovs and the Russian imperial house -- Jonathan Miller 149 Self-made Man: -- The shift from blood to genetics -- Annette Weber 157 "Blood is a most particular fluid": -- Blood as the object of scientific discovery -- and Romantic mystification -- Kim Pelis 175 Transfusion, with Teeth -- Claudia Eberhard-Metzger 193 Blood-Transmitted Diseases -- Peter Weiermair 205 Reflections on Blood in Contemporary Art -- Henry A. Giroux 217 The Culture of Violence and the -- Politics of Colorful Sweaters: -- Benetton's "World without Borders" -- Joachim Pietzsch 231 The World's Legacy is in Our Blood: -- A look at the first century of genetic research -- 245 Appendix -- Notes, List of Exhibited Works, Acknowledgments
Note:
Contributions translated from German, Italian and Russian
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Includes bibliographical references
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Exhibition held at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst and the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, from Nov. 11, 2001-Jan. 27, 2002
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