| Author |
Wellington, Jennifer (author) |
| Title |
Exhibiting war : the Great War, museums, and memory in Britain, Canada, and Australia / Jennifer Wellington. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017. |
| ©2017. |
| Description |
xv, 349 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: 1 In Search of the 'Authentic' Experience of War, 1914-1917 ; The Desire to Collect ; National Differences in Collecting and Exhibiting ; Britain ; Canada ; Australia ; Conclusion ; Part II: 2 Exhibiting for Victory: Travelling War Photography Displays, 1917-1920 ; The False Reality of Photographs ; Depictions of the Exotic and Unfamiliar in Wartime Photograph Exhibitions ; Canadian Exhibitions: Propaganda, 'Reality', and Audience Desires Exhibiting and Cementing the Historical Record in Post-war Australia ; Conclusion ; 3 Art Exhibitions: A Higher Truth in Aid of Victory and for Posterity ; Commissioning and Collecting War Art in Britain ; Creating an Artistic Record of Canada at War: The Canadian War Memorials Fund ; Illustrating the History of Australia's War: Official Australian War Art ; Controlling the Message: Censoring War Art ; Regulating Audience Responses to Official War Art ; What Is the Truth of War? Responses to Britain's Official War Art Conclusion ; 4 Taming the Monsters of War: Exhibiting Weapons and War Trophies, 1917-1920 ; Official Exhibitions of War Technologies and War Trophies during the War ; Tank Banks and Travelling Tank Demonstrations ; Exhibiting War Trophies ; Modern Chivalry: Exhibiting Aeroplanes during the War ; Official Exhibitions of War Technologies and War Trophies after the Armistice ; Conclusion ; Part III: 5 Consolidations: Creating National Museums and Narratives of War, 1920-1935 ; Creating National War Museums The War Museum as National Museum: The Australian War Museum in Melbourne and Sydney, 1922-1935 ; The Imperial War Museum: Displaying the Empire's War Effort ; Canada: The Dormant Museum, 1920-1935 ; Conclusion: Bedding Down National Narratives ; 6 Museums, Monuments, and Memory: Exhibiting War as Part of National and Imperial Commemorative Projects Since 1925 ; The Australian War Memorial Museum and War Commemoration in Australia ; The Imperial War Museum and the Landscape of Remembering in Britain ; Canada: Memorials and Memory . |
| Summary |
A comparative study of how museum exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia were used to depict the First World War. |
| Subjects |
World War, 1914-1918 |
| World War, 1914-1918 -- Exhibitions |
| World War, 1914-1918 -- Museums |
| Collective memory |
| Collective memory -- Australia |
| War memorials -- Great Britain |
| War memorials -- Canada |
| War memorials -- Australia |
| Series |
Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare |
| Call number |
2021.315 |
