Research Catalog

Title

Mengele's skull : the advent of a forensic aesthetics / Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman.

Author

Keenan, Thomas, 1959-

Publication

Berlin : Sternberg Press, c2012.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Weizman, Eyal
• Portikus (Gallery)

Description

84 p. : ill. (some col.); 18 cm.

Summary

"This book was commissioned to instigate, rather than represent, an exhibition. In this curatorial experiment, Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman were asked to produce a book and Hito Steyerl was asked to respond to their text by creating a series of works. This process constructed a form of research within the margins of science, aesthetics, and law--an entangled set of circumstances from which we can examine the fields anew"--P. [2] of cover.

Subject

• Mengele, Josef 1911-1979
• Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979 > Death and burial
• Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979 > Identification
• Strafverfolgung
• Völkerrechtliches Verbrechen
• Gerichtliche Anthropologie
• Identifikation
• Exhumierung
• Forensic anthropology > Exhibitions
• Forensic sciences > Exhibitions
• Human rights
• War crimes
• Human Rights
• War Crimes

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Field guides

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition by Hito Steyerl, Thomas Keenan, Paulo Tavares, and Eyal Weizman, curated by Anselm Franke at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Feb. 4-May 6, 2012.
• "This book was commissioned to instigate, rather than represent, an exhibition. In this curatorial experiment, Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman were asked to produce a book and Hito Steyerl was asked to respond to their text by creating a series of works. This process constructed a form of research within the margins of science, aesthetics, and law--an entangled set of circumstances from which we can examine the fields anew"--P. [2] of cover.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 1934105910
• 9781934105917

OCLC

• 776499675
• SCSB-10531330

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library