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Blood: Art, Power, Politics, and Pathology
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Provocative and Fascinating Dissection of Life's Essence
Blood: Art, Power, Politics, and Pathology

Manufacturer: Prestel
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3791326007

Book Description

Blood

Art, Power, Politics, and Pathology
Edited by James M. Bradburne

Blood: Art, Power, Politics, and Pathology examines one of the most powerful and ubiquitous of human symbols. Illustrated with art works from some of the world 's most important collections, this volume shows how changing conceptions of blood have shaped social relations and material culture over the past 1,500 years.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Provocative and Fascinating Dissection of Life's Essence.......2005-03-10

This book accompanied an exhibition at the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst und Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt am Main in 2002: reading this enthralling book makes one wish that the exhibition had traveled!

James Bradburne is the primary author of this treatise on the vital body substance Blood - a fluid that has challenged the imagination of philosophers, scientists, clergy and artists for centuries. Beginning with the paintings from the Middle Ages preoccupied with the blood of Christ as a symbol for both death and life, this survey is wonderfully illustrated with high quality reproductions of paintings, etchings, sculpture from the past down to contemporary art of video and installation performances that focus on blood as the single most important source of life, death, sickness, health, miracles, power, domination and subjugation.

Not always for the faint of heart, Bradburne includes images of Gunther Brus in his self-mutilation performances, drawings of the elements of blood, references to blood as the transmitter of AIDS and other past and present atrocities. The spectrum of the topic extends from the art houses and cathedrals to the media and cartoons and is fairly complete in the resonance it creates in the dichotomy of positive and negative.


Would that there were more exhibitions of this quality and bravery! But what remains is a book that makes for fascinating reading and looking, and more than that an isolated exhibition cannot hope for as an extended life! Grady Harp, March 05
Feuergeburten: Fruhe Chinesische Keramik Im mak.frankfurt; The Birth of Form: Early Chinese Ceramics at Mak.frankfurt
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    Feuergeburten: Fruhe Chinesische Keramik Im mak.frankfurt; The Birth of Form: Early Chinese Ceramics at Mak.frankfurt
    Stephan Graf; Rainald Simon von der Schulenburg
    Manufacturer: MAK.frankfurt,
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback
    ASIN: B000PSTAEO
    Zur Zukunft der Gewerkschaften: Eine Diskussion nach der ersten Etappe des 35-Stunden Kampfes : Materialien der Tagung des IMSF zum Thema "Situation und ... 1984 in Morfelden bei Frankfurt (Mak)
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      Zur Zukunft der Gewerkschaften: Eine Diskussion nach der ersten Etappe des 35-Stunden Kampfes : Materialien der Tagung des IMSF zum Thema "Situation und ... 1984 in Morfelden bei Frankfurt (Mak)

      Manufacturer: Verlag Marxistische Blatter
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Unknown Binding

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      ASIN: 3880127182
      Mak Frankfurt (Museum Guides.......Large Format)
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        Mak Frankfurt (Museum Guides.......Large Format)
        Prestel
        Manufacturer: Prestel Publishing
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        Binding: Paperback

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        Möbelhölzer. Die Studiensammlung des mak. frankfurt.
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          Heidrun Zinnkann
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          The Birth of Form: Early Chinese Ceramics at Mak.Frankfurt
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            The Birth of Form: Early Chinese Ceramics at Mak.Frankfurt
            Stephan Graf Von Der Schulenburg , and Rainald Simon
            Manufacturer: Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt
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            ASIN: 0834805278
            Zur tocharischen Syntax: Adverbiales A mak, B maka "viel" (Sitzungsberichte der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main)
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              Werner Thomas
              Manufacturer: Franz Steiner
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              Die Alternativen der Alternativbewegung: Diskussion und Kritik ihrer wirtschafts- und gesellschaftspolitischen Konzeptionen : Materialien einer Tagung ... 26./27. November 1983 in Frankfurt/M (Mak)
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                Die Alternativen der Alternativbewegung: Diskussion und Kritik ihrer wirtschafts- und gesellschaftspolitischen Konzeptionen : Materialien einer Tagung ... 26./27. November 1983 in Frankfurt/M (Mak)

                Manufacturer: Verlag Marxistische Blatter
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                Binding: Unknown Binding

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