Blood: Art, Power, Politics, and Pathology

Contents:
Preface / James M. Bradburne and Max Hollein -- Perspectives on Art, Power, Politics and Pathology / James M. Bradburne -- "My blood for thee" / Christian Holtorf -- Magia Sanguinis: Blood and magic in Classical antiquity / Mino Gabriele -- Bleeding Hearts, Bleeding Parts: Scarificial blood in Maya society / Giuseppe 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 / show more Jonathan Miller -- "The predistination of our Habsburg dynasty": Habsburg marriage policies and the phenomenon of "pure blood" in European dynasties / Georg Kugler -- 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. show less