| Posthumous Images: Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon Contributor(s): Elias, Chad (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822347105 ISBN-13: 9780822347101 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $97.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) - Art | Middle Eastern |
| Dewey: 701.030 |
| LCCN: 2017048847 |
| Series: Art History Publication Initiative |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.40 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |