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%T Picturing the (Un)Dead in Beirut: Appropriations of Martyr Posters and Other Images of the Physically Deceased %A Rameder, Agnes %P 410 %D 2024 %I transcript Verlag %K Art History of the 20th Century; Art History of the 21st Century; Beirut; Contemporary Art; Fine Arts; History of art; History, geographic treatment, biography; Kunst/Allgemeines, Lexika; Martyr; Media studies; Philosophy and theory of fine and decorative arts; Political Art; The Arts; Theory of art; Visual Politics; Visual Studies %@ 2702 9557 %@ 978-3-8394-7539-3 %~ transcript Verlag %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-98802-6 %U https://www.transcript-verlag.de/shopMedia/openaccess/pdf/oa9783839475393.pdf %X 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. %C DEU %C Bielefeld %G en %9 Monographie %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info