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Title Does war belong in museums? : the representation of violence in exhibitions / Wolfgang Muchitsch (ed.).

Publication Info. Bielefeld : Transcript, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum ; volume 4
Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum ; Bd. 4.
Note International conference proceedings.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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?
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 -- Museum of Military History/Institute of Military History in Vienna: history, organisation and significance / Christian M. Ortner -- 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 -- 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 -- Monument is invisible, the sign visible. Monuments in new perspectives / Werner Fenz -- Politics of memory and history in the museum -- 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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Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Language In English.
Subject Violence in art -- Exhibitions.
Violence in art.
War in art -- Exhibitions.
War in art.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Muchitsch, Wolfgang, 1963- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Does war belong in museums? : the representation of violence in exhibitions. Bielefeld : Transcript, [2013] 223 pages ; 23 cm Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum ; volume 4 9783837623062 (DLC) 11012964 (OCoLC)842914020
ISBN 9783839423066 (electronic book)
3839423066 (electronic book)
9783837623062 (paperback)
3837623068 (paperback)
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