Posthumous images :

Elias, Chad.

Posthumous images : contemporary art and memory politics in post-civil war Lebanon / Chad Elias. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. - xvi, 243 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. - Art history publication initiative . - Art history publication initiative. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.

Captive subjects : on the geopolitics of sex and translation in Walid Raad's Hostage: the Bachar tapes -- Resistance, video martyrdom, and the afterlife of the Lebanese left -- Latent images, buried bodies : mourning Lebanon's disappeared -- Suspended spaces : the void and the monument in post-civil war Beirut --Images of futures past : the Lebanese Rocket Society.

9780822347101 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780822347668 (softcover : alk. paper)


Art--Political aspects--Lebanon.
War in art.
Social conflict in mass media.
Social conflict in art.


Lebanon--History--Civil War, 1975-1990--Art and the war.

P96.W352 / L44 2018