Picturing the (Un)Dead in Beirut: Appropriations of Martyr Posters and Other Images of the Physically Deceased by Rameder, Agnes

Picturing the (Un)Dead in Beirut: Appropriations of Martyr Posters and Other Images of the Physically Deceased (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837675399)

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Picturing the (Un)Dead in Beirut: Appropriations of Martyr Posters and Other Images of the Physically Deceased by Rameder, Agnes

Picturing the (Un)Dead in Beirut: Appropriations of Martyr Posters and Other Images of the Physically Deceased

$60.00
Picturing the (Un)Dead in Beirut: Appropriations of Martyr Posters and Other Images of the Physically Deceased by Rameder, Agnes

Picturing the (Un)Dead in Beirut: Appropriations of Martyr Posters and Other Images of the Physically Deceased

$60.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Agnes Rameder
ISBN-10: 3837675394
ISBN-13: 9783837675399
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/27/2025
Pages: 414
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d
By Agnes Rameder
By Agnes Rameder
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Agnes Rameder completed her PhD at the department of art history at Universität Zürich in 2023. She wrote her MA thesis on contemporary photography in Tehran at Universität Wien. Her research interests and publications include the intersection of violence and images, political images, memory and photography, and the decolonization of art history. She has also worked as a freelance curator of contemporary art since 2017 and is assistant curator at Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of Contemporary Art in Berlin.

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