Museums, Modernity and Conflict (eBook, PDF)

Museums and Collections in and of War since the Nineteenth Century
Redaktion: Hill, Kate

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Museums, Modernity and Conflict examines the history of the relationship between museums, collections and war, revealing how museums have responded to and been shaped by war and conflicts of various sorts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000260311
• Artikelnr.: 60424364

Autorenporträt

Kate Hill teaches History at the University of Lincoln. She has written extensively on the history of nineteenth-century British museums; her most recent book is Women and Museums 1850-1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge (2016). She is Co-Editor of the Museum History Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Museums and War



Kate Hill



Part I: Collecting and Conflict

1.Salvage and Speculation: The London Art Market After the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71)'



Thomas Stammers



2. Treasure, Triumph and Trespass: The Place of Conflict in the Collecting and Display of "Priam's Treasure"



Zoe Mercer-Golden



Part II: Keeping going? Museums during War

3. The evacuation and management of the Louvre Museum's Near Eastern Antiquities department during World War II



Zoe Vannier



4.Implementing Preventive Strategies Between World War I and II: Catalan Art Museums and the Spanish Civil War



Eva March



Part III: Propaganda, Morale and Resistance

5. "The present is pretty terrible, the future is unknown, the past is the only stable thing to which we can turn": Philip Ashcroft, Rufford Village Museum and the preservation of rural life and tradition during the Second World War



Bridget Yates



6. Museum without objects? The State Art Collections in Dresden during the Second World War



Karin Mueller-Kelwing



7.Exhibiting in wartime. Nazification and resistance in Dutch art exhibitions



Evelien Scheltinga



Part IV: Museums of War and Conflict: Foundations and Disavowals

8. Exhibiting Ravensbrück: from the "Museum of the Antifascist Fight" to the "Museum of the History and Memory of the women's concentration camp"



Doreen Pastor



9. "Flight without feathers is not easy": John Tanner and the development of the Royal Air Force Museum



Peter Elliott



10. "We are a social history, not a military history museum": large objects and the 'peopling' of galleries in the Imperial War Museum, London



Kasia Tomasiewicz



11. 'War Stories: The Art and Memorials Collection at the Canadian War Museum'



Sarafina Pagnotta