"In many ways, the French Revolution and subsequent Napoleonic Wars in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century mark the start of a certain relationship between museums, especially national ones, and state aggrandisement. Museums have a role in the legitimation of power and of violent c...

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1. Verfasser:	Hill, Kate 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2021
Schlagworte:	Krieg Museum Präsentation
Zusammenfassung:	"In many ways, the French Revolution and subsequent Napoleonic Wars in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century mark the start of a certain relationship between museums, especially national ones, and state aggrandisement. Museums have a role in the legitimation of power and of violent conflict, and in the growth of memorialisation and marking of individual loss. Nevertheless, and especially outside capitals, where museums stayed open, they were popular and often looked to the past or the future to engage with war issues in a more oblique and less overtly propagandising way. Modern museums increasingly took on a central role in remembering, interpreting and debating war, and a key part of this development was the creation of war museums. From the nineteenth century, but accelerating with increasing ‘totality’ of war in the twentieth century, museums have been used to help ‘process' and narrate war, through collecting of different sorts of object; and to memorialise new sorts of loss and trauma."
ISBN:	978-0-367-27250-0