Picturing the (Un)Dead in Beirut: Appropriations of Martyr Posters and Other Images of the Physically Deceased

Agnes Rameder

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Picturing the (Un)Dead in Beirut

Appropriations of Martyr Posters and Other Images of the Physically Deceased

Agnes Rameder

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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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.

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Arts Periods 21st Century

Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	5
Abbrevations Open Access Download PDF	6
Figures Open Access Download PDF	7
Contents Open Access Download PDF	15
1. Introduction
Description Open Access Download PDF	19
1.1 An Underview of Pictures of the (Un)Dead in Beirut Open Access Download PDF	20
1.2 Through the Chapters Open Access Download PDF	24
1.3 Research in a Context One Has Not Been Socialised in and the Author’s Background Open Access Download PDF	26
2. The Martyr and the Picture
2.1 Constructing the Martyr Open Access Download PDF	31
2.2 The Dead Are on the Walls: Re-Tracing Images of Martyrs in Lebanon Open Access Download PDF	39
2.3 Martyrs and Posters in Lebanon Open Access Download PDF	55
3. Introducing Nancy and the Play’s Context
3.1 Beirut’s Art Scene and Contemporary Lebanese Art Discourses Open Access Download PDF	57
3.2 About Nancy Open Access Download PDF	67
3.3 Reading Nancy as an Interplay of Text and Image Open Access Download PDF	72
3.4 Nancy as Mroué’s Most Evasive Artwork on Martyrdom Open Access Download PDF	74
3.5 Four Sectarian Martyrs on Their Way to Murr Tower: The Protagonists, and the Historical Background of Nancy Open Access Download PDF	80
3.6 Martyr Posters from the Wars and Their Appropriation in Nancy Open Access Download PDF	108
3.7 Similar Stories, Similar Visuals, and a Common Meeting Point Open Access Download PDF	124
4. Appropriating and Questioning Images of the Sectarian Martyr in Nancy
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	127
4.1 The Sectarian Use of Logos, Symbols, and Slogans Open Access Download PDF	128
4.2 The Martyr and the Photographic Image: Indexicality, Iconicity, and Truth Claims Open Access Download PDF	151
4.3 Constructed Nuances of Visual Memory: Hierarchies of Remembrance and the Oblivion of the Dead Open Access Download PDF	188
4.4 Gendered Martyrdom: Performances in the Image After Death and the Martyr Poster as an Advertising Image Open Access Download PDF	232
4.5 Premature Historicist: The Martyr Poster and the Ruin as Presents Framed as Past Open Access Download PDF	264
4.6 The Time Is Out of Joint: The Martyr as a Spectral Ghost Open Access Download PDF	284
4.7 How Nancy Shows Us via Appropriation That the Martyr Image Is Fabricated Open Access Download PDF	309
5. Images of the Dead Around 4 August 2020
5.1 Coexistence: Sectarian Martyrs, the Martyrs of the Thawra, and the Dead of 4 August Open Access Download PDF	317
5.2 Artistic Reflections of 4 August Open Access Download PDF	348
5.3 A Continuation of Violence, Ghosts, Ruins, and Impossible Truths Open Access Download PDF	360
6. Martyrs and Other (Un)Dead in Beirut and Beyond
6.1 Nancy and the Construction of Images of Martyrs Open Access Download PDF	363
6.2 Old and New Pictures of the (Un)Dead: Beirut 2020–23 Open Access Download PDF	365
6.3 Looking Further: Martyrs in Northern Ireland Open Access Download PDF	368
Afterword: An Ongoing Mass Production of Martyrs and a Stabilised Dystopia Open Access Download PDF	381
After the Afterword: War Again Open Access Download PDF	385
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	389

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December 14, 2024

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9783839475393

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414

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14

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204

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14 schw.-w. u. 204 farb. Abb.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839475393

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