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Interrogating the Visual Culture of Trumpism book cover

1st Edition

Interrogating the Visual Culture of Trumpism

Edited By Grant Hamming, Natalie E. Phillips Copyright 2025
198 Pages 14 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 14 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 14 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Bringing together scholars from art history, visual studies, and related disciplines, this edited volume asks why Trumpism looks the way it does and what that look means for American—and global—society. Grouped into six categories, the essays in this volume tackle some of the most perplexing—and urgent—aspects of the Trumpist visual project. Two of the most striking aspects of that project are... Read more

Contents

 

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

 

Part 1: Introduction

 

1. Interrogating the Visual Culture of Trumpism

Grant Hamming and Natalie Phillips

 

Part 2: Social Media and the Internet

 

2. Towards a Contrarian Postmodernism: Elon Musk and the Ends of Historical Allegory

Grant Hamming

 

3. The Politics of Bigfoot Porn, or the Relationship between Sasquatch and the Far Right

Jessica Landau

 

4. Trumpism, NFTs, and the Cultural Politics of 21st Century Kitsch

Dorothy Barenscott

 

5. The Worship of a Golden Chair: Patterns and Implications of Warhammer 40.000 References in Trumpist Propaganda

F.S. Schönberg

 

Part 3: Commodification and Consumption

 

6. Where’s the Beef: American Portraiture, Stock Photography, and The Visual Politics of Trump Steaks

Annie Ronan

 

7. Cassandra's Curse: Foreshadowing the Trumpian Era - A conversation with Andrew Krasnow

Joseph Phelan with Tobey Crockett

 

8. “Serious Balls”: Donald Trump as Phallic Symbol in Pop Presidential Paraphernalia 

Jane Caputi

 

9. Seeing Red: A MAGA Re-Brand

Kate Kretz

 

Part 4: Portraiture and Caricature

 

10. Edel Rodriguez takes on Donald Trump: The Time Magazine Covers

Natalie E. Phillips

 

11. Trump’s Court Artist

Jennifer A. Greenhill

 

12. Drain

Andrew Ellis Johnson and Susanne Slavick

 

13. Transmedial Trumpism: Strongman Politics Via Popular Caricature 

William S. Chavez and Shyam K. Sriram

 

Part 5: Public Space 

 

14. Making American Architecture Great Again? Executive Order 13967

Toby Norris

 

15. Postcommodity’s Aesthetics of Place: An Intervention into Trump’s Picture of the Borderlands

Jessica Orzulak

 

16. The Visual World of Trumpism and Rural MAGA Warriors in Northern California

Shawn Schwaller

 

Part 6: American Sacred Spaces

 

17. ‘Fake News’ from the Oval Office between the Obama and Trump Administrations, or so we thought

Roger J. Crum

 

18. From Inauguration Crowds to Capitol Mobs: Photography and Fact in the Post-Truth Era

Erin Pauwels

 

19. The Flags that Flew on January 6th: DIY Populist Art Plays with the Past

Justin Patch


Index

 

Biography

Grant Hamming is Collegiate Assistant Professor and Program Director of the Rhizome Living-Learning Community at Virginia Tech. He holds a Ph.D. in the history of art from Stanford University. His research and teaching interests include sustainability, graphic design, and transnationalism in antebellum American art.

Natalie E. Phillips is Associate Professor of Art History and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s, Gender, and African American Studies at Ball State University. She received her Ph.D. in visual studies from the University of California, Irvine, in 2009, and specializes in contemporary art and visual culture.

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