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Informationen zum Autor Chad Elias is Assistant Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College. Klappentext Chad 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. Zusammenfassung Chad 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Captive Subjects: On the Geopolitics of Sex and Translation in Walid Raad's Hostage: The Bachar Tapes 27 2. Resistance, Video Martyrdom, and the Afterlife of the Lebanese Left 55 3. Latent Images, Buried Bodies: Mourning Lebanon's Disappeared 93 4. Suspended Places: The Void and the Monument in Post-Civil War Beirut 131 5. Images of Futures Past: The Lebanese Rocket Society 159 Coda. Time Bomb 177 Notes 193 Bibliography 225 Index 239
