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- Title
Art, Archive, and Fictive Historiography in Lebanon's "Protracted Now".
- Authors
Randall, Renée Ragin
- Abstract
This article analyzes the function of the archival aesthetic found in the works of prominent contemporary Lebanese artists, particularly the manipulation and use of found documents as part of a new visual narrative. Unlike other interpretations of postmodern art in which found documents are a major component, Lebanese artists subordinate the archive (as both object and practice) to the speculative praxis of arriving at a fictive historiography with archival material. As the article will show, this tendency is mimetic of both a contemporary historiographical problematic particular to Lebanon as well as a product of a condition of ongoing forms of violence.
- Subjects
LEBANON; HISTORIOGRAPHY; INSCRIPTIONS; TELEOLOGY; ARTISTS
- Publication
Cultural Critique, 2023, Issue 121, p68
- ISSN
0882-4371
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cul.2023.a905075