Description
Book SynopsisUroš 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.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Zero Hour, Ground Zero Chapter 1: The Trauma Artist Chapter 2: Weaponising Affect Chapter 3: The Gamification of Terror Chapter 4: Weaponisation of History Chapter 5: Military Humanism Chapter 6: Militant Humanism: Repurposing War Infrastructure Conclusion: Weaponised Art Bibliography Index
