Interactive exhibits of political posters designed in chronological and thematic displays.

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Intensity chart

This is a chart illustrated by posters that provides chronologies of the Lebanese war from 1975–1990, supported with essential information on the major warring factions.

The chart proceeds on two axes, horizontally with a year-by-year unfolding of benchmark events in the war, and vertically across the various parties. It thus presents a multi-layered chronology of the war through the posters published by the different factions.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Signs of Conflict exhibition traces the deployment of political discourse in visual culture characteristic of Lebanon’s wartime conflict(s). It examines the political posters that were produced by the various warring factions, political parties and movements in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990. It is premised upon the idea that the posters unfold the narratives of the prevailing political conflicts while providing insights into modern Arab visual culture.

Lebanon’s civil war is a complex case where local socio-economic and sectarian struggles, linked with regional politics, characterized political discourses and distinguished the numerous warring factions. That, in turn, materialized in the production of an equally complex plethora of political posters, with antagonistic discursive frameworks, conflicting significations, as well as distinct aesthetic practices.