Guns are usually designed with great attention to their aesthetic, ergonomic, and functional component parts. Yet, their contemporary manifestations are considered so culturally and symbolically fraught – especially in the United States – that guns produced in the last century have rarely been presented as industrial objects worthy of sustained and close reflection within the context of a major design exhibition or art museum collection. This article considers the few recent exceptions, the legacy that curators and design historians have inherited and recently mobilized around guns in the design canon, and the future of public conversations in the art museum around contemporary intersections of design and violence.

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“我们这个时代最迷人、最精心设计的文物”：在艺术博物馆收藏和展出当代枪支

枪支的设计通常非常注重美学、人体工程学和功能部件。然而，他们的当代表现被认为充满文化和象征意义——尤其是在美国——以至于上个世纪生产的枪支很少被展示为值得在大型设计展览或艺术博物馆的背景下持续和密切反思的工业品收藏。本文考虑了最近的少数例外情况、策展人和设计历史学家在设计经典中围绕枪支继承和最近动员的遗产，以及艺术博物馆中围绕当代设计与暴力交叉点的公众对话的未来。