The art of Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2179555 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pramod K Nayar (0000-0003-2317-6570) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 253-264 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2022.2043909 |
| OpenAlex | W4226211964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article examines one strand of COVID art that encodes a heteroclitic cultural imaginary – and is irregular and unsettling. Banksy's murals and paintings parody classical artworks, and are themselves parodied, so as to capture the new cultural realities of the COVID era. In the case of other artists, such as Chiara Grilli, the traditional heliotrope is parodied to convey a similar reality, like Banksy's inversion of the superhero mythology. With the employment of conventional disease-vector images, such as those of rats, Banksy brings into the human 5dwelling a "postnatural wilderness" showing the reversal of the disruption of ecosystems that had rendered animals habitat-less in India, with animals once again entering human spaces. Hence, the pandemic's inversion of spatialized distribution of life can be seen as a decolonial and decolonizing moment. Subsequently, the article highlights how COVID-19 art intervenes through its parodic, kitschy quality, in the discourses around the pandemic
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Biology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disease · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Literature · Mythology · Painting · Pandemic · Psychoanalysis · The Imaginary · Wilderness · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Medicine · Psychology · Ecology · Virology
Textures of Light
Heliotropes
Agency, Biography and Objects
Affirming Radical Equality in the Context of Covid-19
Writing like a rat
Plague Writing in Early Modern England
The Myth of Superman
Covid-19 and ‘crisis as ordinary’
Parodies for a pandemic
Introduction
Covid-19 and the mundane practices of privilege
Transgressing Boundaries as the Hybrid Global
The performative surprise’
The Look of Love
Manipulating the Sacred
Political Parody and Public Culture
The Long Walk
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |