Culture War
Art, Identity Politics and Cultural Entryism
Published on 6. March 2019
182 pages
978-1-78836-005-0 (ISBN)
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Why has identity become so central to judging art today? Why are some groups reluctant to defend free speech within culture? Has state support made artists poorer not richer? How does the movement for social justice influence cultural production? Why is Post-Modernism dominant in the art world? Why are consumers of comic books so bitterly divided?In Culture War: Art, Identity Politics and Cultural Entryism Alexander Adams examines a series of pressing issues in today's culture: censorship, Islamism, Feminism, identity politics, historical reparations and public arts policy. Through a series of linked essays, Culture War exposes connections between seemingly unrelated events and trends in high and popular cultures. From fine art to superhero comics, from political cartoons to museum policy, certain persistent ideas underpin the most contentious issues today. Adams draws on history, philosophy, politics and cultural criticism to explain the reasoning of creators, consumers and critics and to expose some uncomfortable truths.
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Alexander Adams is a British writer, critic and artist. His art criticism has appeared in leading journals including The Burlington Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Apollo and The Jackdaw. He is a published poet and an artist who has exhibited extensively, with art in museum collections worldwide.
Content
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- By the Same Author
- About Footnotes/Endnotes
- Culture War
- Introduction
- Foreword
- Art, Identity Politics and Cultural Entryism
- On Islamism and the Arts
- Civility and Censorship
- The Psychology of Extremism
- Fatal Attraction
- Identity Politics
- Towards Thought Reform
- Resisting Enforced Civility
- On State Subsidies for Art
- Art is Used as a Social Marker
- The Art Economy is Self-Deceiving
- Winners Take All
- Are Artists Just Ill-Informed Gamblers?
- Subsidies Create Poverty
- The State Encourages the Oversupply of Artists
- Art Funding Goes to the Middle Class
- The State has Artistic Preferences
- The Amateur-Professional Divide
- Conclusions
- On Quota Programming
- Preface: An Allegory
- Introduction
- Murder Machines
- Identarianism
- Never Fast Enough, Never Far Enough
- New Criticism and Post-Modernism
- What Art Is
- Women's Art
- Equity Not Equality
- Quotas versus Art
- Predictions
- The Fate of the Tate
- On the Western Canon
- Great Deeds Against the Dead
- The Exquisitely Efficient Machine
- The Exclusion Fallacy
- What Is This "Canon"?
- Canon Criteria
- Man Proposes, the Canon Disposes
- Modernism and the Canon
- Masterpieces and Blind Spots
- Post-Modernists and the Canon
- On Reparations
- Moral Victories Over the Dead
- Deaccessioning Leads to Reparations
- Gradations of Duress
- Reparations Are Arbitrary Justice
- Reparations Fuel Corruption
- Reparations Are Ineffective
- Welfare of Artefacts & Scholarship
- Conclusion
- On Identity Politics
- The Perfectibility of Mankind
- Left/Right or Liberal/Collectivist?
- From Standpoint Theory to Justified Violence
- The Empathy Deficit
- Victimhood and Selfhood
- How Freedom from Fear Becomes Fear of Freedom
- Political Instruction Through Culture
- A Problem of Affluence
- Post-Modernism As a Form of Decadence
- On Cultural Entryism and Social-Justice Activism
- Cultural Entryism
- Barriers to Cultural Entryism
- Cultural Entryism or Cultural Colonisation?
- Stages of Cultural Entryism
- Social-Media Activism
- Cultural Entryism in Popular Culture
- Comicsgate: A Case History
- Failure of the Mainstream Media
- Conclusions
- Back Matter
- Appendix
- About the Authors
- Textual History
- Acknowledgements
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