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How to Start a Dissident Art Movement

By Alexander Adams

How to Start a Dissident Art Movement

By Alexander Adams

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Since 2015, British artist-writer Alexander Adams has been at the forefront of debates at the intersection of politics and culture. Beginning in the mid-2010s with a critique of the failings of liberalism, evolving through books on iconoclasm and artivism, Adams found his assumptions falling away. Experience of the collapse of the public arts and political consensus-as well as encountering writings by perennial traditionalists-led Adams to address the essence of being an artist in his writings, gathered in one book for the first time.
How to Start a Dissident Art Movement is a collection of polemical art essays, speeches, manifestoes and personal reflections (many previously unpublished) that develop arguments in Adams's previous books. This book acts as a challenge and invitation to ambitious artists today by outlining the inner conflicts many experience. Focussing on core issues, How to Start a Dissident Art Movement steps over criticism of institutions and instead warns of fake traditionalism and the illusory hope of localism, calling for a reconsideration of Modernist art and the establishment of parallel networks. Included is a selection of mordant and revealing private letters by the author, which discuss great art, name sources of inspiration and consider problems faced by working artists.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
250
Release Date:
2025-09-09
Publication Date:
2025-08-18
Publisher:
Imperium Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1923478249
ISBN13:
9781923478244
Minimum Reading Age:
14
Maximum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
273 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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