Kit Messham-Muir

The 2021 Capitol Hill Riot marked a watershed moment when the ‘old world’ of fact-based systems of representation was briefly overwhelmed by the emerging hyper-individual politics of aestheticised 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 2021 Capitol Hill Riot marked a watershed moment when the ‘old world’ of fact-based systems of representation was briefly overwhelmed by the emerging hyper-individual politics of aestheticised 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...