
Exhibiting the Nazi Past
Museum Objects Between the Material and the Immaterial
Chloe Paver(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 31. August 2018
Book
Hardback
X, 304 pages
978-3-319-77083-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the first full-length study of the museum object as a memory medium in history exhibitions about the Nazi era, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Over recent decades, German and Austrian exhibition-makers have engaged in significant programmes of object collection, often in collaboration with witnesses and descendants. At the same time, exhibition-makers have come to recognise the degree to which the National Socialist era was experienced materially, through the loss, acquisition, imposition, destruction, and re-purposing of objects. In the decades after 1945, encounters with material culture from the Nazi past continued, both within the family and in the public sphere. In analysing how these material engagements are explored in the museum, the book not only illuminates a key aspect of German and Austrian cultural memory but contributes to wider debates about relationships between the human and object worlds.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2018
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
16 farbige Abbildungen
X, 304 p. 16 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
523 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-77083-3 (9783319770833)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-77084-0
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Chloe Paver is Associate Professor of German at the University of Exeter, UK. She published widely on German literature and film before turning to the study of history exhibitions. She is the author of
Narrative and Fantasy in the Post-War German Novel
(1999)
and
Refractions of the Third Reich in German and Austrian Fiction and Film
(2007).
Content
1. Introduction.- 2. Between the Material and the Immaterial.- 3. Material Experiences, 1933-45.- 4. Material Collapse, 1945.- 5. Material After-Lives between the Attic and the Museum.- 6. Conclusion.- Index.