In Images of War in Contemporary Art, Uro Cvoro and Kit Messham-Muir mount a challenge to the dominance of theoretical tropes of trauma, affect, and emotion that have determined how we think of images of war and terror for the last 20 years. Through analyses of visual culture from contemporary war art to the meme wars, they argue that the art that most effectively challenges the ethics and aesthetics of war and terror today is that which disrupts this flowart that makes alternative perceptions of wartime both visible and possible. As a theoretical work, Images of War in Contemporary Art is richly supported by visual and textual evidence and firmly embedded in current artistic practice. Significantly, though, the book breaks with both traditional and current ways of thinking about war artoffering a radical rethinking of the politics and aesthetics of art today through analyses of a diverse scope of contemporary art that includes Ben Quilty, Abdul Abdullah (Australia), Mladen Miljanovic, Neboja eric oba (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Hiwa K, Wafaa Bilal (Iraq), Teresa Margolles (Mexico), and Arthur Jafa (United States).
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Weight: 782g
Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
Publication Date: 09 Sep 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781350227330
About Kit Messham-MuirUro Cvoro
Uro Cvoro (UNSW Sydney Australia) researches artistic and cultural strategies dealing with the multiple challenges of post-global exchange such as conflict economic collapse and migration. His books include Turbo-Folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia (2014) Transitional Aesthetics: Contemporary Art at the Edge of Europe (Bloomsbury 2018) and Post-Conflict Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Unfinished Histories (2020). Kit Messham-Muir (Curtin University Australia) researches contemporary art and visual culture that addresses war terror and political violence. He wrote Double War: Shaun Gladwell visual culture and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (2015). He is Lead Chief Investigator of the Art in Conflict project which receives a Linkage Project grant from the Australian Research Council of $293380 over 2018-2021.