Bodies of War Curate the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq

Curating and Re-Curating the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190840556.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 139-168

Author(s):

Christine Sylvester

Keyword(s):

War Veterans ◽

Literary Works ◽

Museum Exhibitions

This chapter considers selected literary works on the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq that throw light on an array of people living in war and navigating its aftermaths. Novels and memoirs curate through stories that miniaturize and narrow war to a few featured characters and experiential moments of larger conflicts. Importantly, literary sites of war knowledge bring to the fore dark essentials of war, including torture, rape and the abject corpses that war museum exhibitions and official memorials to war veterans avoid showing. The novels and memoirs featured here are classics by Americans, Iraqis and Vietnamese, soldiers and civilians, among them works by Bao Ninh, Sinan Antoon, Kevin Powers, Helen Benedict, and Riverbend.

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ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF “THE ADVENTURES OF A LITTLE PREHISTORIC BOY” (1929) BY ERNEST D'HERVILLY IN THE SCOPE OF LITERARY WORKS ABOUT PEOPLE OF THE STONE AGE FROM THE STATE DARWIN MUSEUM COLLECTION

Articult ◽

10.28995/2227-6165-2020-4-104-112 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 104-112

Author(s):

Anna V. Vasilyeva ◽

Keyword(s):

Russian Translation ◽

Popular Science ◽

The State ◽

Museum Collection ◽

Stone Age ◽

Literary Works ◽

Science Book ◽

Emotional Appeal ◽

Museum Exhibitions ◽

Popular Science Book

The article dwells on the study of the image of a prehistoric man portrayed in children books illustrations and museum exhibitions’ design (paintings, sculptures) in 1920-1930s using the example of works from the State Darwin Museum funds. During this period, famous artists of children's books Vasily Vatagin and Mikhail Ezuchevsky worked at the State Darwin Museum. They were also well versed in anthropology and ethnography. Their drawings were the first Soviet illustrations for the book by Ernest d'Hervilly “The Adventures of a little prehistoric boy”, which became a popular science book for children in the USSR about prehistoric people. V.A. Vatagin, M.D. Ezuchevsky and A.N. Komarov created a number of paintings and sculptures about the life of prehistoric people for the exposition of the State Darwin Museum in the first half of the XX century. Illustrations and artworks introduced the element of entertainment and emotional appeal to the museum’s exhibitions, which otherwise were purely informative and rather cold-eyed.

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