Curating the Great War

Herausgeber: Cornish, Paul; Saunders, Nicholas J

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Produktbeschreibung

Curating the Great War explores the inception and subsequent development of museums of the Great War, and the animating spirit which lay behind them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9781032204338
• ISBN-10: 1032204338
• Artikelnr.: 64035240

Autorenporträt

Paul Cornish was, for 32 years, a curator at Imperial War Museums. He is co-editor of the Routledge series Material Culture and Modern Conflict. Nicholas J. Saunders is Professor of Material Culture at Bristol University, UK, and co-director of the 'Great Arab Revolt Project'.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Challenging perspectives on museums and the Great War; PART
I: Museums, Identities and the Politics of Memory: Chapter 1: From one war
to another: German army museums and exhibitions on the First World War,
1914-1940; Chapter 2: The Great War in French Museums 1914-2018; Chapter 3:
Curating on the frontier: The Museum of the Great War in Gorizia, Italy;
Chapter 4: Curating Dominion Narratives of the Great War; Chapter 5:
Curating the Great War at the Imperial War Museum During the Second World
War; PART II: Museums and Materialities: Chapter 6: East of the Jordan:
Curating and forgetting the First World War and the Arab Revolt along the
Hejaz Railway; Chapter 7: Conflict Landscape as Museum and Memorial: The
Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic; Chapter 8: Digging a trench in
an upstairs gallery: Commemorating the Great War in rural Dorset; Chapter
9. Curating the Great War in Poland: The prisoner-of-war camp at Czersk;
Chapter 10: Curating the Macedonian Campaign; Chapter 11: 'Oh! What a
Lovely Exhibition!': Exploring the Imperial War Museum's First World War
50th anniversary displays, 1964-1968; Chapter 12: Te Papa's Gallipoli: The
scale of our war: Curating innovation; PART III: Audiences and Engagement:
Chapter 13: Curating the Sensory War, 1914-2014: emotions, sensations and
the violence of modern war; Chapter 14: Forgotten War? Coping with First
World War trauma, and strategies for centenary commemoration in the Federal
State of Tyrol, Austria; Chapter 15: Curating the Masonic Peace Memorial,
London; Chapter 16: What Need of Tears?: Collaborative memorial-making in
the centenary of The Great War; Chapter 17: Contested memories: Exhibiting
the Great War in the Ulster Museum, Belfast; Chapter 18: The predicament of
material culture: In situ legacies of the Isonzo Front after the First
World War centenary (2014-2018); Afterword: Commemorating the First World
today: The In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, Belgium; Index.