Posthumous Images
Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon, by Chad Elias
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12955552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mohammed Moussa (0000-0002-9313-1784, İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 256-258 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1873-9857 • E-ISSN: 1873-9865 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18739865-01401016 |
| OpenAlex | W3210045216 |
| Language | EN |
Chad Elias, Posthumous Images: Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4766-8.Posthumous Images hinges its scholarly contribution on illustrating the ‘communities of witnessing’ in post-civil war Lebanon and skepticism toward claims of representation (pp. 10–11). The Lebanese artists that Chad Elias examines belong to the war generation (jil al-harb), which includes Walid Raad, founder of the ‘Atlas Group’, and some of his collaborators, such as Bernard Khoury. This generation has articulated their aesthetic sensibilities by drawing on the photographs, buildings
Art · Art history · Political science · Politics · Politics of memory · Representation (politics · Skepticism · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Theology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |