Curating the Great War / edited by Paul Cornish and Nicholas J. Saunders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cornish, Paul, editor.

Saunders, Nicholas J., editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Museums.

World War, 1914-1918.

Military museums.

World War, 1914-1918--Exhibitions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 341 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Contents:

Introduction: Challenging perspectives on museums and the Great War / Paul Cornish.

Part I: Museums, Identities and the Politics of Memory

From one war to another: German army museums and exhibitions on the First World War, 1914-1940 / Thomas Weissbrich.

The Great War in French Museums 1914-2018 / Bérénice Zunino.

Curating on the frontier: The Museum of the Great War in Gorizia, Italy / Alessandra Martina.

Curating Dominion Narratives of the Great War / Jennifer Wellington.

Curating the Great War at the Imperial War Museum During the Second World War / Philip W. Deans.

Part II: Museums and Materialities

East of the Jordan: Curating and forgetting the First World War and the Arab Revolt along the Hejaz Railway / Nicholas J. Saunders.

Conflict Landscape as Museum and Memorial: The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic / Zeljko Cimprić.

Digging a trench in an upstairs gallery: Commemorating the Great War in rural Dorset / Martin Barry.

Information Classification: General

Curating the Great War in Poland: The prisoner-of-war camp at Czersk / Dawid Kobiałka.

Curating the Macedonian Campaign / Andrew Shapland.

'Oh! What a Lovely Exhibition!' Exploring the Imperial War Museum's First World War Fiftieth Anniversary Displays, 1964-1968 / James Wallis.

Te Papa's Gallipoli: The scale of our war: Curating innovation / Kirstie Ross.

Part III: Audiences and Engagement

Curating the Sensory War, 1914-2014: emotions, sensations and the violence of modern war / Ana Carden-Coyne.

Forgotten War? Coping with First World War Trauma, and strategies for Centenary Commemoration in the Federal State of Tyrol, Austria / Isabelle Brandauer.

Curating the Masonic Peace Memorial, London / Mark Dennis.

What Need of Tears? Collaborative memorial-making in the centenary of The Great War / Steve Dixon.

Contested Memories: Exhibiting the Great War in the Ulster Museum, Belfast / Siobhán Doyle.

The predicament of material culture: In situ legacies of the Isonzo Front after the First World War centenary (2014-2018) / Boštjan Kravanja.

Afterword / Dominiek Dendoo

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 03, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Curating the Great War

ISBN:

9781003263531

1003263534

9781000631203

1000631206

9781000631197

1000631192

Publisher Number:

40031366606

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.