Posthumous Images: Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon - Couverture souple

Elias, Chad

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ISBN 10 : 0822347660 ISBN 13 : 9780822347668

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822347660
• ISBN 13: 9780822347668
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
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• Personne responsable: non disponible