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Item Number: 124429
Title: Does War Belong in Museums? The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions
Author: Muchitsch, Wolfgang (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783837623062
Description: Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2013. 22cm., pbk., 224pp. illus. 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? Includes: J. Winter, Museums and the Representation of War ; B. Hacker, Military Museums and Social History ; G. Pieken, Contents and Space: New Concept and New Building of the Militärhistorisches Museum of the Bundeswehr ; R. Raths, From Technical Showroom to Full-fledged Museum: The German Tank Museum Munster ; P. Rekdal, About the Beauty of War and the Attractivity of Violence ; S. Hagemann, The Bomb and the City: Presentations of War in German City Museums ; W. Fenz, The Monument is Invisible, the Sign Visible. Monuments in New Perspectives ; etc. (Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum)
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