{"product_id":"posthumous-images-9780822347101","title":"Posthumous Images","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChad Elias analyzes a generation of artists working in Lebanon who interrogate Lebanon's civil war (1975–1990), showing how their appropriation and creation of images challenge divisive political discourse, give a voice to those silenced and forgotten, and provide the means to reimagine Lebanon's future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sophisticated and carefully researched . . . . The significance of [Elias's] book for current Anglophone art history is its in-depth and rewarding analysis of a context outside the usual terms of reference.\" -- Tom Snow * Art Monthly *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePosthumous Images\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome contribution to the study of contemporary art from the Middle East, significant in its substantive engagements with a generation of artists in Lebanon that has been championed around the world for its theoretically sophisticated responses to a devastating conflict and its tense, inconclusive afterlives. Elias offers important provocations for further study of cultural production in Lebanon, through his identification of a tension between a ‘politics of representation’ and a ‘politics of truth’, his attention to ‘communities of witnessing’ that contest a state-imposed post-war condition of forgetting, and his analysis of the role of media technologies in circulating images of contested histories.\" -- Kareem Estefan * Third Text *\u003cbr\u003e\"Elias’s erudite and thoughtful writing, self-reflexively aware of the failures of translation, offers a refreshing alternative to this starved corpus. . . . \u003ci\u003ePosthumous Images\u003c\/i\u003e generates a valuable dialogue between theory and art, whereby they complicate and complement one another.\" -- Foad Torshizi * Arab Studies Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePosthumous Images\u003c\/i\u003e is a rigorous work of scholarship that offers a timely intervention into existing discourses on lens-based media and memory. The book offers a clear and important route to thinking beyond the widely accepted inadequacies of the visual without recourse to conventional models of documentary truth.\" -- Kimberly Schreiber * Object *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePosthumous Images\u003c\/i\u003e is, in sum, a brilliant book, sparkling with ambition and insight but also a couple of squibs in judgement that may be attributed more to the confidence of an exuberant intellect at work than to any lack of sensitivity.\" -- Ken Seigneurie * Journal of Arabic Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a stimulating study, impressive in its writing. Because Elias builds his chapters upon a culled selection of work, there is space for him to construct his claims through elegant constellations of references to theorists rather than direct citations of historical studies. The result is a book that gives air to both its readings and possible gaps in those readings’ explanatory power.\" -- Anneka Lenssen * Art Journal *\u003cbr\u003e“Using a variety of contemporary Lebanese works of art..., Elias analyzes and illustrates how contemporary art plays a critical role in attempting to evoke the past and recreate the future under conditions of amnesia, violence, and unresolved war.... [\u003ci\u003ePosthumous Images\u003c\/i\u003e] is clearly written; its arguments are convincingly constructed and structured.” -- Elsa El Hachem-Kirby * Mashriq \u0026amp; Mahjar *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Captive Subjects: On the Geopolitics of Sex and Translation in Walid Raad's \u003ci\u003eHostage: The Bachar Tapes\u003c\/i\u003e  27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Resistance, Video Martyrdom, and the Afterlife of the Lebanese Left  55\u003cbr\u003e 3. Latent Images, Buried Bodies: Mourning Lebanon's Disappeared  93\u003cbr\u003e 4. Suspended Places: The Void and the Monument in Post-Civil War Beirut  131\u003cbr\u003e 5. Images of Futures Past: The Lebanese Rocket Society  159\u003cbr\u003e Coda. Time Bomb  177\u003cbr\u003e Notes  193\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  225\u003cbr\u003e Index  239","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406060003671,"sku":"9780822347101","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822347101.jpg?v=1730494393","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/posthumous-images-9780822347101","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}