museum objects between the material and the immaterial /
First Statement of Responsibility
Chloe Paver.
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Cham, Switzerland :
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Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2018.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
SERIES
Series Title
The Holocaust and its contexts
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Objects in Focus; 1.2 The Exhibitionary Routine; 1.3 Scope of the Study; 1.4 Research Context; 1.5 Structure of the Analysis; Chapter 2 Between the Material and the Immaterial; 2.1 Broken Glass; 2.2 Objects as Signifiers and Fragments; 2.3 Mentalities, Experiences, Emotions-and Objects; 2.4 Object Life Cycles; Chapter 3 Material Experiences, 1933-45; 3.1 Jews and Heimat: Objects and Belonging; 3.2 Mentalities and Materials; 3.3 Hitler Busts and Nazi Symbols
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3.4 Material Economies and Sign Systems of the Camps3.5 Material Experiences of the Non-persecuted Majority in Wartime; Chapter 4 Material Collapse, 1945; 4.1 The Sortie de Guerre: Objects Caught in Time; 4.2 Vandalism, Disposal and Recycling; 4.3 New Material Beginnings for the Victims; Chapter 5 Material After-Lives Between the Attic and the Archive; 5.1 Hitler in the Attic, in the Museum: How the Domestic Spaces of the Majority Culture Have Yielded Up Objects; 5.2 Hiding in Plain Sight: Remnants of National Socialism in the Public Sphere
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5.3 Resurfacing and Restitution: Victims' Objects After 19455.4 Survival Among Objects; 5.5 Michael Köhlmeier's Story 'Der Silberlöffel': 'Aryanized' Objects in the Liberal Imagination; 5.6 Coming to Terms with the Coming to Terms; 5.7 Life Goes on in the Museum: The Continuation of the Object Life Cycle; Chapter 6 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.--