Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture

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).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: 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 AffairChapter 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 RiotChapter 6: Delegated Insurrection ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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.