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Science 4 January 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5552, pp. 49 - 50
DOI: 10.1126/science.1067709
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ART:
Cultural Traces of a Vital Fluid

A review by Kerstin Schmidt

Blood Perspectives on Art, Power, Politics and Pathology
mak.frankfurt and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 11 November 2001 to 27 January 2002. www.bloodexhibition.de

Blood Art, Power, Politics and Pathology
James M. Bradburne, Ed.
Prestel, Munich, 2001. 272 pp. Paper, $65. ISBN 3-7913-2600-7.

This interdisciplinary exhibit explores cultural, emotional, social, and scientific aspects of our changing understanding of what blood is and what it does.
The author is in the Department of Neurophysiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Deutschordenstrasse 46, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. E-mail: schmidt{at}mpih-frankfurt.mpg.de

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