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Associate Professor Uros Cvoro

Associate Professor

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)

School of Art & Design

Associate Professor in Art Theory at UNSW Sydney.

E-mail

u.cvoro@unsw.edu.au

Books | 2025

Cvoro U, 2025, Bosnian Girls, Art and Nationalism Contemporary Feminist Art from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Routledge, https://www.routledge.com/Bosnian-Girls-Art-and-Nationalism-Contemporary-Feminist-Art-from-Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/Cvoro/p/book/9781032783475

Books | 2023

Messham-Muir K; Čvoro U, 2023, The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350287310

Books | 2022

Cvoro U; Messham-Muir K, 2022, The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture: Populism, Politics, and Paranoia, Bloomsbury Academic, London, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/trump-effect-in-contemporary-art-and-visual-culture-9781350287297/

Books | 2021

Čvoro U; Messham-Muir K; Cvoro U, 2021, Images of war in contemporary art: Terror and conflict in the mass media, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350227361

Books | 2021

Čvoro U; Messham-Muir K, 2021, Images of War in Contemporary Art, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350227361

Books | 2020

Cvoro U, 2020, Post-Conflict Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Unfinished Histories, Routledge, https://www.amazon.com/Post-Conflict-Monuments-Bosnia-Herzegovina-Unfinished/dp/0367138425

Books | 2020

Čvoro U, 2020, Post-Conflict Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Routledge, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367138448

Books | 2018

Cvoro U, 2018, Transitional Aesthetics: Contemporary Art at the Edge of Europe, Bloomsbury Academic, https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/transitional-aesthetics-9781350053410/

Books | 2014

, 2014, Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia Conclusion, ROUTLEDGE, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000401254200009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Books | 2014

Cvoro U, 2014, The Changing Roles of the National Museum of Australia in Creating Australian Identity: How the Politics of a Nation Shaped Its Culture, Edwin Mellen Press, London

Books | 2014

Cvoro U, 2014, Turbo-Folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia, ROUTLEDGE, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000401254200010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Books | 2014

Cvoro U, 2014, Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia, Ashgate, London, http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=20098&edition_id=1209350583&calcTitle=1

Books | 2012

Cvoro U, 2012, The Changing Roles of the National Museum of Australia in Creating Australian Identity
Book Chapters | 2024

Messham-Muir K; Cvoro U; Lukowska-Appel M, 2024, 'Contemporary War Art Introduction', in Messham-Muir K; Cvoro U; Lukowska-Appel M (ed.), POLITICS OF ARTISTS IN WAR ZONES, BLOOMSBURY VISUAL ARTS, pp. 1 - +

Book Chapters | 2023

Cvoro U; Lionis C, 2023, 'Humour, Critical Inversion and the ‘Age of Commemoration’: An Interview with Stefanos Tsivopoulos', in Comedy in Crises Weaponising Humour in Contemporary Art, Palgrave Macmillan, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18961-6_2

Book Chapters | 2023

Messham-Muir K; Cvoro U; Lukowska-Appel M, 2023, 'Introduction: Contemporary War Art', in The Politics of Artists in War Zones: Art in Conflict, Bloomsbury, pp. 1 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350386006.0007

Book Chapters | 2023

Messham-Muir K; Čvoro U; Lukowska-Appel M, 2023, 'Introduction', in , Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, pp. 1 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350386006.0007

Book Chapters | 2023

Messham-Muir K; Čvoro U, 2023, 'Soldier/Artist', in The Politics of Artists in War Zones: Art in Conflict, Bloomsbury, pp. 137 - 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350386006.ch-006

Book Chapters | 2022

Cvoro U, 2022, 'Conversation: A Sketch For Necropolis', in Realtime Monument, Museum of Contemporary Art, Serbia, Belgrade, pp. 41 - 82

Book Chapters | 2020

Cvoro U, 2020, ''We Came to Take Your Jobs Away': Migration and Agency in the Work of Tanja Ostojic and Angela Melitopoulos', in TRANSITIONAL AESTHETICS: CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE EDGE OF EUROPE, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 37 - 59

Book Chapters | 2020

Cvoro U, 2020, 'Afterword: Beyond Transitional Aesthetics', in TRANSITIONAL AESTHETICS: CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE EDGE OF EUROPE, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 151 - 155

Book Chapters | 2020

Cvoro U, 2020, 'Going Too Far: Translation and Over-identification as a Critique of Transition', in TRANSITIONAL AESTHETICS: CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE EDGE OF EUROPE, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 61 - 84

Book Chapters | 2020

Cvoro U, 2020, 'Halfway Tradition', in TRANSITIONAL AESTHETICS: CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE EDGE OF EUROPE, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 85 - 106

Book Chapters | 2020

Cvoro U, 2020, 'Introduction: In Transition', in TRANSITIONAL AESTHETICS: CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE EDGE OF EUROPE, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 1 - 13

Book Chapters | 2020

Cvoro U, 2020, 'The Afterlife of Abandoned Monuments', in TRANSITIONAL AESTHETICS: CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE EDGE OF EUROPE, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 107 - 128

Book Chapters | 2020

Cvoro U, 2020, 'The Politics of Transitional Aesthetics', in TRANSITIONAL AESTHETICS: CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE EDGE OF EUROPE, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 15 - 35

Book Chapters | 2020

Cvoro U, 2020, 'Transitional Archives: Art and Historical Memory in Former Yugoslavia', in TRANSITIONAL AESTHETICS: CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE EDGE OF EUROPE, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 129 - 150

Book Chapters | 2020

Cvoro U, 2020, '‘Doing a Lynndie’: Artist Responses to Representation of Gender in Abu Ghraib Torture Photographs', in Masculinity Femininity Re Framing A Fragmented Debate, pp. 79 - 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781848880948_010

Book Chapters | 2016

Cvoro U, 2016, 'Transnational Aesthetics: Apprehending Time Between the Balkans and Europe in Contemporary Art Practices', in Krajina Z; Blanusa N (ed.), EU, Europe Unfinished: Mediating Europe and the Balkans in a Time of Crisis, Rowman & Littlefield International, London, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781783489787/EU-Europe-Unfinished-Mediating-Europe-and-the-Balkans-in-a-Time-of-Crisis

Book Chapters | 2014

, 2014, 'The People's Eastern Kitsch: Self-management, Modernisation and 'Newly Composed Folk Music' in Yugoslavia', in TURBO-FOLK MUSIC AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 29 - 54, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000401254200003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Book Chapters | 2014

, 2014, 'They Can Be Heroes: Popular Culture and Public Sculpture in Former Yugoslavia', in TURBO-FOLK MUSIC AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 129 - 153, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000401254200007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Book Chapters | 2014

, 2014, 'Turbo-art: Music and National Identity in the Work of Contemporary Artists from Former Yugoslavia', in TURBO-FOLK MUSIC AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 105 - 128, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000401254200006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
Edited Books | 2023

Cvoro U; Messham-Muir K; Lukowska M; Messham-Muir K; Cvoro U; Lukowska-Appel M, (eds.), 2023, The Politics of Artists in War Zones: Art In Conflict, Bloomsbury, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350386006
Journal articles | 2022

Cvoro U, 2022, 'Book Review: Balkanization and Global Politics: Remaking Cities and Architecture', FABRICATIONS-THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, 31, pp. 457 - 459, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2021.1971365

Journal articles | 2020

Messham-Muir K; Čvoro U; Cvoro U, 2020, 'After Aftershock: The Affect–Trauma Paradigm One Generation After 9/11', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 20, pp. 125 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764233

Journal articles | 2020

Messham-Muir K; Čvoro U, 2020, 'Introduction', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 20, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764225

Journal articles | 2019

Cvoro U, 2019, 'Heart, Hands, and Shovel: Zenica Trilogy by Danica Dakić', ARTMargins Online, https://artmargins.com/heart-hands-and-a-shovel-danica-dakics-zenica-trilogy-pavilion-of-bosnia-and-herzegovina/

Journal articles | 2019

Čvoro U; Lionis C, 2019, 'When the periphery laughs: Humor and locality in contemporary art from Greece and Bosnia and Herzegovina', Cultural Politics, 15, pp. 223 - 243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/17432197-7515070

Journal articles | 2017

Cvoro U, 2017, 'Halfway tradition: TRANSITION, NATION, SEX, AND DEATH IN THE WORK OF MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ AND MLADEN MILJANOVIĆ', Družboslovne Razprave, 33, pp. 35 - 50, http://druzboslovne-razprave.org/clanek/2017/85/3/

Journal articles | 2015

Cvoro U, 2015, 'Transitional archives: art ‘in between’ historical memories in former Yugoslavia', Continuum, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2015.1073689

Journal articles | 2012

Cvoro U, 2012, 'Remember the nineties? Turbo-folk as the vanishing mediator of nationalism', Cultural Politics, 8, pp. 121 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/17432197-1572021

Journal articles | 2008

Cvoro U, 2008, 'Dialectical image today', Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 22, pp. 89 - 98

Journal articles | 2006

Cvoro U, 2006, 'Conference Report', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 7, pp. 17 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2006.11432760

Journal articles | 2006

Cvoro U, 2006, 'Contact Zone Cronulla', Broadsheet, 35

Journal articles | 2006

Cvoro U, 2006, 'Crocodile Tears', Broadsheet

Journal articles | 2006

Cvoro U, 2006, 'Monument to Anti-Monumentality: The Space of The National Museum of Australia', Museum and Society

Journal articles | 2006

Cvoro U, 2006, 'Transforming Aesthetics: Review', Australian and New Zealand Journal

Journal articles | 2006

Cvoro U, 2006, 'What will the neighbours think?', Broadsheet

Journal articles | 2002

Cvoro U, 2002, 'The Present Body, The Absent Body and The Formless', Art Journal, 61, pp. 54 - 63

Journal articles | 2002

Cvoro U, 2002, 'The present body, the absent body, and the formless (Rachel Whitehead's 'House', a site-specific art project)', ART JOURNAL, 61, pp. 54 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/778151

Journal articles | 2002

Cvoro U, 2002, 'The present body, the absent body, and the formless', Art Journal, 61, pp. 54 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2002.10792136
Conference Presentations | 2019

Cvoro U, 2019, 'Light at the End of the Tunnel: Ethnonational and Neoliberal Borders in Bosnia and Herzegovina', presented at Why Remember? Memory and Forgetting in Times of War and Its Aftermath, Sarajevo, 09 July 2019 - 10 July 2019, https://whyremember2019.wordpress.com/

Creative Written Works | 2017

Cvoro U, 2017, After New Primitivism, My Parent's Bedroom (Exhibition by Mladen Miljanovic at Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska), http://msurs.net/index.php/en

Conference Presentations | 2016

Kelley L; Cvoro U, 2016, 'What Does Nationalism Taste Like?', presented at Conspiracy Talks Series, Sydney, NSW, 24 August 2016 - 24 August 2016

Creative Works (non-textual) | 2012

George P, 2012, Fog Gardent Exhibition catalogue, FOG GARDEN, Breenspace; Sydney, -

2023-2026 ARC Linkage Project, Chief Investigator: Art of Peace: New perspectives in visual art on peacekeeping from the 1990s, in partnership with the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the National Trust of NSW.

2018-2021 ARC Linkage Project, Chief Investigator: Art in Conflict: Transforming contemporary art at Australian War Memorial, partnering with the Australian War Memorial and the National Trust of NSW.

My Research Supervision

Danielle Robson (PhD, joint supervision with Felicity Fenner): Play-aesthetics in public art

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