Posthumous Images

Author : Chad Elias
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822371557

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For almost two decades of its history (1975-90), Lebanon was besieged by sectarian fighting, foreign invasions, and complicated proxy wars. In Posthumous Images, Chad Elias analyzes a generation of contemporary artists who have sought, in different ways, to interrogate the contested memory of those years of civil strife and political upheaval. In their films, photography, architectural projects, and multimedia performances, these artists appropriate existing images to challenge divisive and violent political discourses. They also create new images that make visible individuals and communities that have been effectively silenced, rendered invisible, or denied political representation. As Elias demonstrates, these practices serve to productively unsettle the distinctions between past and present, the dead and the living, official history and popular memory. In Lebanon, the field of contemporary art is shown to be critical to remembering the past and reimagining the future in a nation haunted by a violent and unresolved war.

Author : Chad Elias
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822347105

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Posthumous Images by Chad Elias Pdf

For almost two decades of its history (1975-90), Lebanon was besieged by sectarian fighting, foreign invasions, and complicated proxy wars. In Posthumous Images, Chad Elias analyzes a generation of contemporary artists who have sought, in different ways, to interrogate the contested memory of those years of civil strife and political upheaval. In their films, photography, architectural projects, and multimedia performances, these artists appropriate existing images to challenge divisive and violent political discourses. They also create new images that make visible individuals and communities that have been effectively silenced, rendered invisible, or denied political representation. As Elias demonstrates, these practices serve to productively unsettle the distinctions between past and present, the dead and the living, official history and popular memory. In Lebanon, the field of contemporary art is shown to be critical to remembering the past and reimagining the future in a nation haunted by a violent and unresolved war.

Author : Alfred J. López
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000632729

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A Posthumous History of José Martí by Alfred J. López Pdf

A Posthumous History of José Martí: The Apostle and His Afterlife focuses on Martí’s posthumous legacy and his lasting influence on succeeding generations of Cubans on the island and abroad. Over 120 years after his death on a Cuban battlefield in 1895, Martí studies have long been the contested property of opposing sides in an ongoing ideological battle. Both the Cuban nation-state, which claims Martí as a crucial inspiration for its Marxist revolutionary government, and diasporic communities in the US who honor Martí as a figure of hope for the Cuban nation-in-exile, insist on the centrality of his words and image for their respective visions of Cuban nationhood. The book also explores more recent scholarship that has reassessed Martí’s literary, cultural, and ideological value, allowing us to read him beyond the Havana-Miami axis toward engagement with a broader historical and geographical tableau. Martí has thus begun to outgrow his mutually-reinforcing cults in Cuba and the diaspora, to assume his true significance as a hemispheric and global writer and thinker.

Author : Sharon Hecker,Peter J. Karol
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000575101

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Posthumous Art, Law and the Art Market by Sharon Hecker,Peter J. Karol Pdf

This book takes an interdisciplinary, transnational and cross-cultural approach to reflect on, critically examine and challenge the surprisingly robust practice of making art after death in an artist's name, through the lenses of scholars from the fields of art history, economics and law, as well as practicing artists. Works of art conceived as multiples, such as sculptures, etchings, prints, photographs and conceptual art, can be—and often are—remade from original models and plans long after the artist has passed. Recent sales have suggested a growing market embrace of posthumous works, contemporaneous with questioning on the part of art history. Legal norms seem unready for this surge in posthumous production and are beset by conflict across jurisdictions. Non-Western approaches to posthumous art, from Chinese emulations of non-living artists to Native American performances, take into account rituals of generational passage at odds with contemporary, market-driven approaches. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, the art market, art law, art management, museum studies and economics.

Author : Melissa Eppihimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190903022

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Exemplars of Kingship by Melissa Eppihimer Pdf

Stretching across the historical region of Mesopotamia, the Akkadian dynasty (ca. 2334-2154 BCE) created a territorial state of unprecedented scale in the ancient Near East by uniting the city-states of Sumer and Akkad and parts of Syria and Iran. To establish and, later, cement their authority over disparate peoples and places, the kings used art and visual culture to extraordinary effect. Exemplars of Kingship conveys the astonishing life of the art of the Akkadian kings by assessing ancient and modern responses to its dynamic forms and transformative ideologies of kingship. For nearly two thousand years after their reign, the Akkadian kings were remembered as exemplary rulers. Modern assessments of ancient memories of Akkadian kingship have concentrated on textual attestations of the kings' place in cultural memory. This book considers the contributions of images to memories of Akkadian kingship. Through close readings of the visuals that remain, Melissa Eppihimer discusses how Akkadian steles, statues, and cylinder seals became models for later rulers in Mesopotamia and beyond who wished to emulate or critique the Akkadian kings-and how these rulers and their contemporaries were reminded of the Akkadian past when they looked at images. Exemplars of Kingship is, therefore, a book about Akkadian art and its reception in antiquity, but it is also concerned with the modern reception of Akkadian art and kingship. It argues that modern responses have constrained our understanding of ancient responses. Through a wide range of examples drawn from almost two millennia, the book highlights the individual decisions that prompted continuity and change during the long history of Mesopotamia and its artistic traditions.

Author : Jason Schwartz
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939293220

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John the Posthumous by Jason Schwartz Pdf

John the Posthumous exists in between fiction and poetry, elegy and history: a kind of novella in objects, it is an anatomy of marriage and adultery, an interlocking set of fictional histories, and the staccato telling of a murder, perhaps two murders. This is a literary album of a pre-Internet world, focused on physical elements — all of which are tools for either violence or sustenance. Knives, old iron gates, antique houses in flames; Biblical citations, blood and a history of the American bed: the unsettling, half-perceived images, and their precise but alien manipulation by a master of the language will stay with readers. Its themes are familiar — violence, betrayal, failure — its depiction of these utterly original and hauntingly beautiful.

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015054156859

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Becoming Posthumous by Jeremy Tambling Pdf

This book introduces the idea of the posthumous as a means of thinking about our relationship to the past, to death and to history.

Author : Andrea Pearson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351872263

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Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe by Andrea Pearson Pdf

As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women as a discrete subject, this volume considers the possibilities and limits of agency and identity for women in history and, with particular attention to gender, as categories of analysis for women's images. Its nine original essays on Italy, the Low Countries, Germany, France, and England deepen the usefulness of these analytical tools for portraiture. Among the book's broad contributions: it dispels false assumptions about agency's possibilities and limits, showing how agency can be located outside of conventional understanding, and, conversely, how it can be stretched too far. It demonstrates that agency is compatible with relational gender analysis, especially when alternative agencies such as spectatorship are taken into account. It also makes evident the importance of aesthetics for the study of identity and agency. The individual essays reveal, among other things, how portraits broadened the traditional parameters of portraiture, explored transvestism and same-sex eroticism, appropriated aspects of male portraiture to claim those values for their sitters, and, as sites for gender negotiation, resistance, and debate, invoked considerable relational anxiety. Richly layered in method, the book offers an array of provocative insights into its subject.

Author : Mark Dery
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780008329822

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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery Pdf

The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. ’A genius book about a bookish genius’ Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events

Author : Jerome Jordan Pollitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1986-06-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521276721

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Art in the Hellenistic Age by Jerome Jordan Pollitt Pdf

This 1986 book is an interpretative history of Greek art during the Hellenistic period.

Author : Philip Walker Jacobs
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813156392

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The Life and Photography of Doris Ulmann by Philip Walker Jacobs Pdf

Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) was one of the foremost photographers of the twentieth century, yet until now there has never been a biography of this fascinating, gifted artist. Born into a New York Jewish family with a tradition of service, Ulmann sought to portray and document individuals from various groups that she feared would vanish from American life. In the last eighteen years of her life, Ulmann created over 10,000 photographs and illustrated five books, including Roll, Jordan, Roll and Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands. Inspired by the paintings of the European old masters and by the photographs of Hill and Adamson and Clarence White, Ulmann produced unique and substantial portrait studies. Working in her Park Avenue studio and traveling throughout the east coast, Appalachia, and the deep South, she carefully studied and photographed the faces of urban intellectuals as well as rural peoples. Her subjects included Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, African American basket weavers from South Carolina, and Kentucky mountain musicians. Relying on newly discovered letters, documents, and photographs -- many published here for the first time -- Philip Jacobs's richly illustrated biography secures Ulmann's rightful place in the history of American photography.

Author : Iwan Morgan,Mark White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755602087

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The Presidential Image by Iwan Morgan,Mark White Pdf

Presidential Image has become an integral part of the campaign, presidency and legacy of Modern American presidents. Across the 20th century to the age of Trump, presidential image has dominated media coverage and public consciousness, winning elections, gaining support for their leadership in office and shaping their reputation in history. Is the creation of the presidential image part of a carefully conceived public relations strategy or result of the president's critics and opponents? Can the way the media interpret a presidents' actions and words alter their image? And how much influence do cultural outputs contribute to the construction of a presidential image? Using ten presidential case studies. this edited collection features contributions from scholars and political journalists from the UK and America, to analyse aspects of Presidential Image that shaped their perceived effectiveness as America's leader, and to explore this complex, controversial, and continuous element of modern presidential politics.

Author : Garrett Stewart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226774112

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Between Film and Screen by Garrett Stewart Pdf

What is the mysterious region between photography and the phenomenon of narrative cinema, between the photogram - a single film frame - and the illusion of motion we recognise as movies?.

Author : T. G. Aravamuthan,Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 8120608003

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Portrait Sculpture in South India by T. G. Aravamuthan,Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam Pdf

Author : Sally-Ann Ashton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317868736

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The Last Queens of Egypt by Sally-Ann Ashton Pdf

The last of the Ptolemaic monarchs who ruled Egypt for 300 years, Cleopatra is the most famous of the Ptolemaic queens. But what of her predecessors? The Last Queens of Egypt examines the roles played by the Ptolemaic royal women and explores their part in religion, politics and court intrigue. Explaining their propensity for incest, murder and power, Sally Ann Ashton shows the extent of the power they enjoyed, the price they paid, and how they shaped Cleopatra's reign.