Joy (Hrsg.) Damousi

Museums, History and the Intimate Experience of the Great War

Love and Sorrow

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The Great War of 1914-1918 was fought on the battlefield, on the sea and in the air, and in the heart. Museums Victoria's exhibition World War I: Love and Sorrow exposed not just the nature of that war, but its depth and duration in personal and familial lives. Hailed by eminent scholar Jay Winter as one of the best which the centenary of the Great War has occasioned, the exhibition delved into the war's continuing emotional claims on descendants and on those who encounter the war through museums today. Contributors to this volume, drawn largely from the exhibition's curators and advisory panel, grapple with the complexities of recovering and… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Tout-Smith, Deborah (Hrsg.) / Ziino, Bart (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-00-020134-5
EAN: 9781000201345
Produktnummer: 33996940
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 17'108 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 59 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 59 schwarz-weiße Fotos

Über den Autor

Joy Damousi is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia (1999) and co-editor (with Paula Hamilton) of A Cultural History of Sound, Memory and the Senses (2017).Deborah Tout-Smith is Senior Curator, Home & Community, in the Society & Technology Department of Museums Victoria. She has curated major exhibitions including World War I: Love & Sorrow (2014), and curates Museum Victoria's Military History, Home & Community and Childhood collections. Deborah is Vice-chair of the Board of ICOM Australia.Bart Ziino is Senior Lecturer in History at Deakin University. He has published widely on the politics of memory and commemoration. He is the author of A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War (2007), and editor of Remembering the First World War (2015).