[PDF] Exhibiting War eBook

Author : Jennifer Wellington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107135079

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

Author : Zuzanna Bogumił
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1782382186

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Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the enemy in particular ways. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still exert an enormous influence on the national identities of Russians, Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can thus play an important role in this process.

Author : Justin Richards
Publisher : Random House
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448177049

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WEWELSBURG CASTLE, 1940. The German war machine has woken an ancient threat – the alien Vril and their Ubermensch have returned. Ultimate Victory in the war for Europe is now within the Nazis’ grasp. ENGLAND, 1941 Foreign Office trouble shooter Guy Pentecross has stumbled into a conspiracy beyond his imagining – a secret war being waged in the shadows against a terrible enemy. The battle for Europe has just become the war for humanity. This is The Thirty-Nine Steps crossed with Indiana Jones and Quatermass. Justin Richards has an extremely credible grasp of the period’s history and has transformed it into a groundbreaking alternate reality thriller.

Author : Eleanor Jones Harvey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300187335

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Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.

Author : Jörg Echternkamp
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1789201276

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Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of soldiers and civilians, and the self-perception of those who remember. This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world.

Author : Rick Beyer
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1797225308

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“A riveting tale told through personal accounts and sketches along the way—ultimately, a story of success against great odds. I enjoyed it enormously.” —Tom Brokaw The first book to tell the full story of how a traveling road show of artists wielding imagination, paint, and bravado saved thousands of American lives—now updated with new material. In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young GIs—artists, designers, architects, and sound engineers, including such future luminaries as Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, Arthur Singer, Victor Dowd, Art Kane, and Jack Masey—landed in France to conduct a secret mission. From Normandy to the Rhine, the 1,100 men of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, known as the Ghost Army, conjured up phony convoys, phantom divisions, and make-believe headquarters to fool the enemy about the strength and location of American units. Every move they made was top secret, and their story was hushed up for decades after the war's end. Hundreds of color and black-and-white photographs, along with maps, official memos, and letters, accompany Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles’s meticulous research and interviews with many of the soldiers, weaving a compelling narrative of how an unlikely team carried out amazing battlefield deceptions that saved thousands of American lives and helped open the way for the final drive to Germany. The stunning art created between missions also offers a glimpse of life behind the lines during World War II. This updated edition includes: A new afterword by co-author Rick Beyer Never-before-seen additional images The successful campaign to have the unit awarded a Congressional Gold Medal History and WWII enthusiasts will find The Ghost Army of World War II an essential addition to their library.

Author : Wolfgang Muchitsch
Publisher : Transcript Verlag
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9783837623062

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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?

Author : Carlton McCarthy
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Reports on a soldier's life in the Army of the Confederacy, by Carlton McCarthy, later Mayor of Richmond.