TY - BOOK ID - 22214755 TI - Does War Belong in Museums? : The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions AU - Muchitsch, Wolfgang AU - Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection PY - 2014 SN - 3839423066 3837623068 1306997054 PB - Bielefeld transcript Verlag DB - UniCat KW - Violence in art KW - War in art KW - Conflict. KW - Cultural History. KW - Exhibition. KW - Memory Culture. KW - Museology. KW - Violence. KW - War. KW - Museum; War; Conflict; Exhibition; Violence; Cultural History; Museology; Memory Culture UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22214755 AB - 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? »Ein instruktiver Band.« Christian Demand, Merkur, 68/7 (2014) Reviewed in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 10.10.2013, Christian Hirte Mitteilungen, 46/2 (2013) ER -