Le pouvoir en images : les affiches politiques au Liban entre 2005 et 2010

Abstract

During the turbulent period following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Lebanon, political posters were an important media used by rival political parties to impose specific imagery on the public, contributing to set up a partisan discourse, linked to the political position of each one. A war of images and slogans occurs then, based on an audacious revaluation of the notion of image reconsidered as a symbol and as an icon. The classical figurative representation system inherited from the Renaissance is confronted to ideolo­gical considerations that will create a rupture and propose original models of images.