6.2 Old and New Pictures of the (Un)Dead: Beirut 2020–23

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1. Frontmatter 1
2. Acknowledgements 5
3. Abbrevations 6
4. Figures 7
5. Contents 15
6. 1. Introduction
7. Description 19
8. 1.1 An Underview of Pictures of the (Un)Dead in Beirut 20
9. 1.2 Through the Chapters 24
10. 1.3 Research in a Context One Has Not Been Socialised in and the Author’s Background 26
11. 2. The Martyr and the Picture
12. 2.1 Constructing the Martyr 31
13. 2.2 The Dead Are on the Walls: Re-Tracing Images of Martyrs in Lebanon 39
14. 2.3 Martyrs and Posters in Lebanon 55
15. 3. Introducing Nancy and the Play’s Context
16. 3.1 Beirut’s Art Scene and Contemporary Lebanese Art Discourses 57
17. 3.2 About Nancy 67
18. 3.3 Reading Nancy as an Interplay of Text and Image 72
19. 3.4 Nancy as Mroué’s Most Evasive Artwork on Martyrdom 74
20. 3.5 Four Sectarian Martyrs on Their Way to Murr Tower: The Protagonists, and the Historical Background of Nancy 80
21. 3.6 Martyr Posters from the Wars and Their Appropriation in Nancy 108
22. 3.7 Similar Stories, Similar Visuals, and a Common Meeting Point 124
23. 4. Appropriating and Questioning Images of the Sectarian Martyr in Nancy
24. Introduction 127
25. 4.1 The Sectarian Use of Logos, Symbols, and Slogans 128
26. 4.2 The Martyr and the Photographic Image: Indexicality, Iconicity, and Truth Claims 151
27. 4.3 Constructed Nuances of Visual Memory: Hierarchies of Remembrance and the Oblivion of the Dead 188
28. 4.4 Gendered Martyrdom: Performances in the Image After Death and the Martyr Poster as an Advertising Image 232
29. 4.5 Premature Historicist: The Martyr Poster and the Ruin as Presents Framed as Past 264
30. 4.6 The Time Is Out of Joint: The Martyr as a Spectral Ghost 284
31. 4.7 How Nancy Shows Us via Appropriation That the Martyr Image Is Fabricated 309
32. 5. Images of the Dead Around 4 August 2020
33. 5.1 Coexistence: Sectarian Martyrs, the Martyrs of the Thawra, and the Dead of 4 August 317
34. 5.2 Artistic Reflections of 4 August 348
35. 5.3 A Continuation of Violence, Ghosts, Ruins, and Impossible Truths 360
36. 6. Martyrs and Other (Un)Dead in Beirut and Beyond
37. 6.1 Nancy and the Construction of Images of Martyrs 363
38. 6.2 Old and New Pictures of the (Un)Dead: Beirut 2020–23 365
39. 6.3 Looking Further: Martyrs in Northern Ireland 368
40. Afterword: An Ongoing Mass Production of Martyrs and a Stabilised Dystopia 381
41. After the Afterword: War Again 385
42. Bibliography 389