Screen LibraryDoes war belong in museums? : the representation of violence in exhibitions /
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 soci...
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transcript Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
| Publication Dates: |
2014. ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum ;
volume 4 |
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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? |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (224 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783839423066 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | N8257 |
| CLC: | G260 |
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Frontmatter -- Editorial -- Content -- Does War Belong in Museums? The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions / Introduction / Museums and the Representation of War / Military Museums and Social History / Contents and Space: New Concept and New Building of the Milit rhistorisches Museum of the Bundeswehr / From Technical Showroom to Full-fledged Museum: The German Tank Museum Munster / The Museum of Military History/Institute of Military History in Vienna: History, Organisation and Significance / The Concept for a New Permanent Exhibition at the Museum Altes Zeughaus / About the Beauty of War and the Attractivity of Violence / The Bomb and the City: Presentations of War in German City Museums / War in Context: Let the Artifacts Speak / War Museums and Photography / The Monument is Invisible, the Sign Visible. Monuments in New Perspectives / Politics of Memory and History in the Museum The New "Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War" in Minsk/Belarus / Framing the Military-Nation: New War Museums and Changing Representational Practices in Turkey since 2002 / Contributors. |