Exhibiting War: The Great War, Museums, and Memory in Britain, Canada, and Australia

ISBN-13: 9781316501023 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 365 str.

Jennifer Wellington

Opis

A comparative study of how museum exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia were used to depict the First World War.

Recenzje

'As a richly contextualised account of the origins of three major war museums of the British and Dominion experience, Exhibiting War captures the continuities and deeper cultural currents that animated the more familiar institutional story in each case.' Geoffrey A.C. Ginn, Australian Journal of Politics and History

Spis treści

Part I: 1. In search of the 'authentic' experience of war, 1914–17; Part II: 2. Exhibiting for victory: travelling war photography displays, 1917–20; 3. Art exhibitions: a higher truth in aid of victory and for posterity; 4. Taming the monsters of war: exhibiting weapons and war trophies 1917–20; Part III: 5. Consolidations: creating national museums and narratives of war, 1920–35; 6. Museums, monuments, and memory: exhibiting war as part of national and imperial commemorative projects since 1925.