Picturing the (Un)Dead in Beirut : Appropriations of Martyr Posters and Other Images of the Physically Deceased
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Paperback / Softback
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ISBN-10
3837675394
ISBN-13
9783837675399
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
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Transcript Verlag
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 15th, 2025
Print length
414 Pages
Weight
636 grams
Dimensions
22.50 x 14.80 x 2.90 cms
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Art treatments & subjects
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Hauntings of the past and future that have effects on the present: Contemporary artistic reflections on the figure of the martyr in Lebanon.
Martyr posters are more than obituary images they can act as visual politics. Focusing on Rabih Mroué''s play How Nancy Wished That Everything Was an April Fool''s Joke (2007), Agnes Rameder analyses how contemporary artists question and appropriate Lebanese martyr posters. By linking the posters from the Wars in Lebanon (1975-1990) to contemporary posters, she shows that these images continue to the present day, that martyrs are still created and that deaths, such as those who were killed in the explosion on 4 August 2020, are still visually remembered. This study does not focus on how such pictures are perceived by a Western audience but delves into the use and abuse of martyr posters that were intended to be shown to the Lebanese.
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