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Mengele, dance of death : Jean Tinguely / [texts, Sven Keller, Sophie Oosterwijk, Roland Wetzel ; translation, Alexandra Cox].

Title
  1. Mengele, dance of death : Jean Tinguely / [texts, Sven Keller, Sophie Oosterwijk, Roland Wetzel ; translation, Alexandra Cox].
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  1. Basel : Museum Tinguely, A Cultural Commitment of Roche : Heidelberg : Kehrer, c2017.

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Additional authors
  1. Cox, Alexandra
  2. Keller, Sven
  3. Oosterwijk, Sophie
  4. Tinguely, Jean, 1925-1991
  5. Wetzel, Roland
Description
  1. 63 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm.
Summary
  1. The equally burlesque and sepulchral installation Mengele-Dance of Death (1986), created out of the remnants of a devastating fire, assumes a key position in the late oeuvre of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely. The group of kinetic sculptures combines the memento mori motif, a reminder of the equality of all mankind in the face of death, and an admonition against all forms of totalitarianism with the irony and penchant for the grotesque that are peculiar to Tinguely?s work. The publication will be released on occasion of the opening of the specially created exhibition space in the Tinguely Museum Basel. Contributions by Roland Wetzel, Sophie Oosterwijk and Sven Keller, along with an interview with Jean Tinguely shed light on the work?s genesis, the tradition of the dance of death motif, and the myth of the name-giving NS perpetrator Mengele.
Uniform title
  1. Mengele - Totentanz. English.
Subject
  1. Dance of death in art
  2. Dance of death in art > Catalogs
  3. Tinguely, Jean, 1925-1991
  4. Tinguely, Jean, 1925-1991 > Catalogs
Genre/Form
  1. Catalogs
Contents
  1. Mengele-Dance of death : a late chef d'Oeuvre by Jean Tinguely / Roland Wetzel -- The deep conceived fantay of death : the history and character of the Dance of death in Medieval and Renaissance Europe / Sophie Oosterwijk -- Murderer, myth, machine : the perpertrator Mengele / Sven Keller -- Margrit Hahnloser in conservation with Jean Tinguely.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
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