The Politics of Artists in War Zones (eBook, ePUB)

Art in Conflict
Redaktion: Messham-Muir, Kit; Lukowska-Appel, Monika; Cvoro, Uros

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What exactly is contemporary war art in the West today? This book considers the place of contemporary war art in the 2020s, a whole generation after 9/11 and long past the 'War on Terror'.

Exploring the role contemporary art plays within conversations around war and imperialism, the book brings together chapters from international contemporary artists, theorists and curators, alongside the voices of contemporary war artists through original edited interviews.

It addresses newly emerged contexts in which war is found: not only sites of contemporary conflicts such as Ukraine, Yemen and Syria, but everywhere in western culture, from social media to 'culture' wars. With interviews from official war artists working in the UK, the US, and Australia, such as eX de Medici (Australia) and David Cotterrell (UK), as well as those working in post-colonial contexts, such as Baptist Coelho (India), the editors reflect on contemporary processes of memorialisation and the impact of British colonisation in Australia, India and its relation to historical conflicts. It focuses on three overlapping themes: firstly, the role of memory and amnesia in colonial contexts; secondly, the complex role of 'official' war art; and thirdly, questions of testimony and knowing in relation to alleged war crimes, torture and genocide.

Richly illustrated, and featuring three substantial interview chapters, The Politics of Artists in War Zones is a hands-on exploration of the complexities and challenges faced by war artists that contextualises the tensions between the contemporary art world and the portrayal of war. It is essential reading for researchers of fine art, curatorial studies, museum studies, conflict studies and photojournalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350385993
• Artikelnr.: 68445519

Autorenporträt

Kit Messham-Muir, Professor in Art, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University, Australia, and Uros Cvoro, Associate Professor of Art Theory, Arts, Design & Architecture, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia are the authors of Images of War in Contemporary Art: Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media (Bloomsbury, 2021) and The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture: Populism, Politics, and Paranoia (Bloomsbury, 2022). Monika Lukowska-Appel is Research Assistant for 'Art in Conflict' at Curtin University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Contemporary War Art
Kit Messham-Muir (Curtin University
Australia)
Uros Cvoro (UNSW
Australia) and Monika Lukowska-Appel (Curtin University
Australia) Part One: Colonisation
Memory and Amnesia Introduction 1. Unsettling Colonial Postamnesia: Contemporary Art
the WW1 Centenary and Beyond
Ana Carden-Coyne (Manchester University
UK) 2. Above all Else: Art as a Weapon
Lisa Slade (Art Gallery of South Australia) 3. WAR (ART): what is it good for?
Anthea Gunn and Laura Webster (Australian War Memorial) 4. Colonisation
Memory and Amnesia: Interviews with Baptist Coelho
Alana Hunt and Abdul Abdullah Part Two: War Art
Official and Unofficial Introduction 5. The War at Home
Charles Green (University of Melbourne
Australia) 6. Soldier/Artist: Negotiating the complexities of military service and critical practice
Kit Messham-Muir (Curtin University
Australia) and Uros Cvoro (UNSW
Australia) 7. War Art
Official and Unofficial: Interviews with eX de Medici
David Cotterrell
Karen Bailey and Phillip Cheung Part Three: Knowing and Testimony Introduction 8. The Art of Testimony
Paul Lowe (University of the Arts London
UK) 9. Inconvenient Narratives: Addressing moral ambiguity in the national war museum
Kit Messham-Muir (Curtin University
Australia) 10. Knowing and Testimony: Interviews with Todd Stone
Andrew Sneddon and Joanna Bourke Bibliography Index