Elias Chad Elias

Posthumous Images (eBook, PDF)

Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon

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Produktbeschreibung

For almost two decades of its history (1975-90), Lebanon was besieged by sectarian fighting, foreign invasions, and complicated proxy wars. In Posthumous Images, Chad Elias analyzes a generation of contemporary artists who have sought, in different ways, to interrogate the contested memory of those years of civil strife and political upheaval. In their films, photography, architectural projects, and multimedia performances, these artists appropriate existing images to challenge divisive and violent political discourses. They also create new images that make visible individuals and communities that have been effectively silenced, rendered invisible, or denied political representation. As Elias demonstrates, these practices serve to productively unsettle the distinctions between past and present, the dead and the living, official history and popular memory. In Lebanon, the field of contemporary art is shown to be critical to remembering the past and reimagining the future in a nation haunted by a violent and unresolved war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822371557
• Artikelnr.: 54787898

Autorenporträt

Chad Elias is Assistant Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction  1
1. Captive Subjects: On the Geopolitics of Sex and Translation in Walid
Raad's Hostage: The Bachar Tapes  27
2. Resistance, Video Martyrdom, and the Afterlife of the Lebanese Left  55
3. Latent Images, Buried Bodies: Mourning Lebanon's Disappeared  93
4. Suspended Places: The Void and the Monument in Post-Civil War Beirut 
131
5. Images of Futures Past: The Lebanese Rocket Society  159
Coda. Time Bomb  177
Notes  193
Bibliography  225
Index  239