Abstract

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2020, vol. 20, no. 1, 1–4 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764225 Kit Messham-Muir* and Uros Cvoro I want to assure the American people that we’re doing everything we can each day to confront and ultimately defeat this horrible invisible enemy. We’re at war, in a true sense, we’re at war, and we’re fighting an invisible enemy … A number of people have said it, but, and I feel it actually, I’ma wartime president, there’s a war, there’s a war, different kind of a war that we’ve ever had. th Donald J. Trump, 45 President of the United States, 23 March 2020. This Special Issue of the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art follows a year after the symposium titled War, Art and Visual Culture: Sydney. The symposium held at the SH Ervin Gallery in Sydney on Monday 25 February 2019 set out to explore current international thinking on the art and visual culture of war, conflict, terror and political violence. Both this special issue, the Sydney symposium, and the symposia in London and Los Angeles that followed later in the year, are an important part of Art in Conflict, a three-year ARC Linkage project led