Art Journal
Art Journal, Summer 2007
In This Issue
Crossing Memory's Green Line—Contemporary Art in Beirut
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Features
Out of History: Postwar Art in Beirut
8
Dangerous Gifts: Lamia Joreige’s Objects of War
21
Objects of War
23
Place at Last
34
Mining War: Fragments from a Conversation Already Passed
48
The War Works: Videos under Siege, Online and in the Aftermath, Again
68
Ritualizing Life: Videos of Jalal Toufic
83
Minor Art: Conceptual Posters and Book Covers
85
Curating Beirut: A Conversation on the Politics of Representation
98
Reviews
ELIZABETH HARNEY on André Magnin, Alison de Lima Greene, Alvia J. Wardlaw, and Thomas McEvilley, African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection;
Simon Njami and Jean-Hubert Martin, eds. Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent; and Shannon Fitzgerald, Tumelo Mosaka, and Orlando Britto Jinorio, eds., A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad
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