The Trump Effect in contemporary art and visual culture: populism, politics, and paranoia

"The 2021 Capitol Hill Riot marked a watershed moment when the ‘old world’ of factbased systems of representation was briefly overwhelmed by the emerging hyper-individual politics of aestheticized emotion. In The Trump Effect: Populism, Politics and Paranoia in Contemporary Art and Visual Cultu...

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Main Authors: Messham-Muir, Kit (Author), Čvoro, Uroš (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2023
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Summary:"The 2021 Capitol Hill Riot marked a watershed moment when the ‘old world’ of factbased systems of representation was briefly overwhelmed by the emerging hyper-individual politics of aestheticized emotion. In The Trump Effect: Populism, Politics and Paranoia in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, Kit Messham-Muir and Uroš Cvoro analyse the aesthetics that have emerged at the core of 21st-century politics, and which erupted at the US Capitol in January 2021. Looking at this event’s aesthetic dimensions through such aspects as QAnon, white resentment and strongman authoritarianism, they examine the world-wide historical trends towards ethno-nationalism and populism that emerged following the end of the Cold War in 1989 and the dawning of the current post-ideological age. Messham-Muir and Cvoro build on their ground-breaking research into how trauma, emotion and empathy have become well worn tropes in today’s contemporary art about war to highlight the ways in which contemporary art can actively disrupt the underlying drift in society towards white supremacism and ultranationalism. They do so by utilising their outsiders’ perspective on a so-called American phenomenon to reject the ‘American exceptionalism’ idea of Trump as a political aberration, instead seeing ‘The Trump Effect’ as a crystalising of deeper and longer-term philosophical shifts. The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture: Populism, Politics, and Paranoia explores the complex, recent and rapidly evolving political, social, cultural, and aesthetic conditions we describe as the ‘Trump Effect.’ While centered on the politics of the United States of America, the Trump Effect is in fact a global phenomenon that precedes the Trump presidency and reaches far beyond the United States [...]."
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (256 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781350287310
9781350287297
DOI:10.5040/9781350287310