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 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 ...