Images of War in Contemporary Art: Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media

by Uros Cvoro and Kit Messham-Muir

Book Overview

In Images of War in Contemporary Art, Uros 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350227374
• ISBN13: 9781350227378
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"