Martyr posters are more than obituary images – they can act as visual politics. Focusing on Rabih Mroué's play How Nancy Wished That Everything Was an April Fool's Joke (2007), Agnes Rameder analyses how contemporary artists question and appropriate Lebanese martyr posters. By linking the posters from the Wars in Lebanon (1975-1990) to contemporary posters, she shows that these images continue to the present day, that martyrs are still created and that deaths, such as those who were killed in the explosion on 4 August 2020, are still visually remembered. This study does not focus on how such pictures are perceived by a Western audience but delves into the use and abuse of martyr posters that were intended to be shown to the Lebanese.
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Picturing the (Un)Dead in Beirut
Appropriations of Martyr Posters and Other Images of the Physically Deceased
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Picturing the (Un)Dead in Beirut
Appropriations of Martyr Posters and Other Images of the Physically Deceased
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Art & PoliticsTable of contents
- Cover
- Acknowledgements
- Abbrevations
- Figures
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Martyr and the Picture
- 3. Introducing Nancy and the Play’s Context
- 4. Appropriating and Questioning Images of the Sectarian Martyr in Nancy
- 5. Images of the Dead Around 4 August 2020
- 6. Martyrs and Other (Un)Dead in Beirut and Beyond
- Afterword: An Ongoing Mass Production of Martyrs and a Stabilised Dystopia
- After the Afterword: War Again
- Bibliography
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