The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture: Populism, Politics, and Paranoia

Author:   Kit Messham-Muir ,  Uroš Cvoro
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pages:   256
Publication Date:   26 January 2023
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Author:   Kit Messham-Muir ,  Uroš Cvoro
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
ISBN:  

9781350346598


ISBN 10:   1350346594
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   26 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Trump Effect Chapter 1: QAnon: ‘Shall We Play a Game?’ Chapter 2: The Critical Race Theory Moral Panic: Dana Schutz’s Open Casket and the Evergreen Affair Chapter 3: #cancel #woke #universities: ‘burn them down and start it all over again!’ Chapter 4: Our Past But Not Our Past: ‘Statue Wars’ and Contemporary Art Chapter 5: Overidentifying with the Strongman: Trump and the Capitol Hill Riot Chapter 6: Delegated Insurrection Conclusion Bibliography Index

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This book analyses the linked world view and aesthetics of the resurgent far right, including the 'paranoid epistemology' of QAnon and the 'gamification' of its propaganda, along with provocative readings about the relation of contemporary art to a consciously performative politics--among leaders and followers alike. * Julian Stallabrass, Professor of Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, UK * Messham-Muir and Cvoro provide a very useful and highly original contribution to the analysis of the new fascist tendencies and the way these simultaneously contest and uphold a torn democratic public sphere. * Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Professor of Political Aesthetics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * An urgent analysis of the Trump effect as a global and American phenomenon. Its unique focus on the power of contemporary aesthetics in social media to mobilise the Right makes for chilling reading in understanding how Trump's followers almost succeeded in the Capitol Hill Riot of 6 January 2021. * Catherine Speck, Emerita Professor of Art History and Curatorship, University of Adelaide, Australia, and author of Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars (2014) *


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Uroš Cvoro is Associate Professor in Art Theory at UNSW Australia, Arts, Design & Architecture. His research interests include contemporary art and politics, cultural representations of nationalism, post-socialist and post-conflict art. His books include Transitional Aesthetics: Art at The Edge of Europe (2018) and Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia (2014). With Kit Messham-Muir, he is co-author of Images of War in Contemporary Art: Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media (Bloomsbury, 2021). Kit Messham-Muir is Professor in Art in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. His research interests include the art and visual culture of war, as well as the studio practice of contemporary artists. With Uroš Cvoro, he is co-author of Images of War in Contemporary Art: Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media (Bloomsbury, 2021) and author of Double War: Shaun Gladwell, visual culture and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (2015).

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