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Does War Belong in Museums? : The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions /

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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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Corporate Authors: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection (http://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/funder,), Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Bounia, Alexandra (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Hacker, Barton C. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Nater Cartier, Carol (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Ortner, Christian M. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Pieken, Gorch (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Klinger, Jane (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Winter, Jay (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Janeke, Kristiane (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Vining, Margaret (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Muchitsch, Wolfgang (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/editor,, Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Kern, Patrizia (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Rekdal, Per B. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Gryse, Piet de (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Raths, Ralf (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Ehrenreich, Robert M. (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Hagemann, Susanne (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Stylianou-Lambert, Theopisti (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,), Fenz, Werner (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor,)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2014]
Edition:1. Aufl.
Series:Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum ; 4
Subjects:
Violence in art > Exhibitions.
War in art > Exhibitions.
Conflict.
Cultural History.
Exhibition.
Memory Culture.
Museology.
Violence.
War.
Violence dans l'art > Expositions.
Guerre dans l'art > Expositions.
ART / Museum Studies.
Violence in art.
War in art.
Electronic books.
Exhibition catalogs.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Editorial
  • Content
  • Does War Belong in Museums? The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions
  • Introduction
  • DOES WAR BELONG IN MUSEUMS?
  • Museums and the Representation of War
  • IF WAR DOES BELONG IN MUSEUMS: HOW?
  • Military Museums and Social History
  • DISPLAYING WAR
  • Contents and Space: New Concept and New Building of the Militärhistorisches 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 BEAUTY OF WAR AND THE ATTRACTIVITY OF VIOLENCE
  • 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
  • THE TRAUMA OF WAR AND THE LIMITS OF MEDIA
  • War in Context: Let the Artifacts Speak
  • War Museums and Photography
  • The Monument is Invisible, the Sign Visible. Monuments in New Perspectives
  • MILITARY HISTORY, WAR MUSEUMS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
  • 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