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Does war belong in museums? : the representation of violence in exhibitions
Title
Does war belong in museums? : the representation of violence in exhibitions / Wolfgang Muchitsch (ed.).
ISBN
9783839423066
3839423066
9783837623062
3837623068
Publication
Bielefeld : Transcript, [2013]
Copyright Notice Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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International conference proceedings.
In English.
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Summary
Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge to explain violence and, by analysing it, make it easier to handle and prevent. The museums concerned also have to face up to these basic issues about the social and institutional handling of war and violence. Does war really belong in museums? And if it does, what objectives and means are involved? Can museums avoid trivializing and aestheticising war, transforming violence, injury, death and trauma into tourist sights? What images of shock or identification does one generate -- and what images would be desirable?
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Print version: Does war belong in museums? : the representation of violence in exhibitions. Bielefeld : Transcript, [2013] Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum ; volume 4
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 06, 2023
Series
Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum ; volume 4
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Does war belong in museums? The representation of violence in exhibitions / Wolfgang Muchitsch
Introduction / Piet de Gryse
Museums and the representation of war / Jay Winter
Military museums and social history / Barton C. Hacker, Margaret Vining
Contents and space: new concept and new building of the Militärhistorisches Museum of the Bundeswehr / Gorch Pieken
From technical showroom to full-fledged museum: the German Tank Museum Munster / Ralf Raths
The Museum of Military History/Institute of Military History in Vienna: history, organisation and significance / Christian M. Ortner
The concept for a new permanent exhibition at the Museum Altes Zeughaus / Carol Nater Cartier
A pedagogical and educational approach to the two world wars at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History in Brussels / Christine Van Everbroeck, Sandrine Place, Sandra Verhulst
About the beauty of war and the attractivity of violence / Per B. Rekdal
The bomb and the city: presentations of war in German city museums / Susanne Hagemann
War in context: let the artifacts speak / Robert M. Ehrenreich, Jane Klinger
War museums and photography / Alexandra Bounia, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert
The monument is invisible, the sign visible. Monuments in new perspectives / Werner Fenz
Politics of memory and history in the museum
the new "museum of the history of the Great Patriotic War" in Minsk/Belarus / Kristiane Janeke
Framing the military-nation: new war museums and changing representational practices in Turkey since 2002 / Patrizia Kern.
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