How to Start a Dissident Art Movement

<p>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.</p><p></p><p><em>How to Start a Dissident Art Movement </em>is a collection of polemical art essays speeches manifestoes and personal reflections (many previously unpublished) that develop arguments in Adams's previous books.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 <em>How to Start a Dissident Art Movement </em>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.</p><p></p><p></p>