Terrorism and the Arts

This book assesses the key definitions, forms, contexts and impacts of terrorist activity on the arts in the modern era, using historical and contemporary perspectives.

Jonathan Harris is Emeritus Professor in Global Art and Design Studies at Birmingham City University.

Introduction: 'Figure / trauma / terror' Jonathan Harris 1 'The migrant image: fear of 'replacement' and the resurgence of white nationalism' Dora Apel 2 'Facing Franco's terror: visual arts and the fate of memory' Paula Barreiro López 3 'A transgenerational reparation for the damage of torture through drawing dreams and performance' Marisa Cornejo 4 'After Mosul: the cultural and political economy of destruction and reconstruction' Anthony Downey 5 '"They make a desert and they call it peace": states of terror and contemporary artistic response in the Middle East' Jonathan Harris 6 'Re-inscriptions of terror and terrorism since Mallarmé: Wassily Kandinsky and Gerhard Richter' Lewis Johnson 7 'Harold Pinter and state terrorism' Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovi- 8 '"Terrorism", "rebellion", "resistance": excavating the role of art in activist social transformation' Jonathan Day 9 'Shakespeare and terrorism' David Roberts 10 'All that is certain vanishes into air: tracing the anabasis of the Japanese Red Army' Naeem Mohaiemen 11 'Media hijack: Chris Burden and the logic of terrorism' Matthew Teti