The Politics of Artists in War Zones: Art in Conflict - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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 Uros 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).

Uros 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).

Monika Lukowska-Appel has worked with Kit Messham-Muir and Uros Cvoro as the Research Assistant on the Art in Conflict ARC project.