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

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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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Kunst Epochen 21. Jahrhundert

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

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