Images of War in Contemporary Art

Uroš 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 $293,380 over 2018-2021.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Zero Hour, Ground ZeroChapter 1: The Trauma ArtistChapter 2: Weaponising AffectChapter 3: The Gamification of TerrorChapter 4: Weaponisation of HistoryChapter 5: Military HumanismChapter 6: Militant Humanism: Repurposing War InfrastructureConclusion: Weaponised ArtBibliographyIndex