Counter-Currents
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 534
Interview with Alexander Adams
Counter-Currents Radio
118 words / 57:22
Greg Johnson welcomed Alexander Adams (WordPress, Substack), author of the recently-published book from Imperium Press Blood, Soil, Paint, to the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed Romanticism and modern art. It is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
00:00 Introduction
04:16 On Counter-Currents” “reactionary modernism”
08:00 On Salvador Dalí
10:52 On Blood, Soil, Paint
11:25 On Edvard Munch
16:51 Why was so much good art confined to utilitarian purposes?
24:36 On Romanticism, nationalism, and the Enlightenment
30:32 How is modernism related to Romanticism?
36:34 On Futurism
41:07 On Dadaism
44:23 On Henrik Ibsen
46:47 On Wyndham Lewis
48:36 On Jonathan Bowden’s paintings
51:25 On René Magritte and Edgar Degas
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Years ago I was doing research at a major West Coast university. The campus had an exhibition of political posters from the 1960s. The usual agitprop from the antiwar movement (“War Is Not Healthy…”), SDS clenched fists, black power-to-the-people ™, etc. I thought about going to the folks who ran the exhibit and asking them to include posters from the Right from that era. But I knew what their response would be (at least way back then when there was some vestige of free speech remaining on campus): “Well, if you have rightwing posters, bring ’em in and we’ll consider it.”
Alas, I couldn’t think of anything iconic from the Right other than some lame items out of YAF.
Which gets to the point about poster art per the podcast. Posters are a front in an overall agitprop struggle. And not just posters but other forms of art: murals, street theater, plays, film, etc., etc.
There is a big advantage to physical art works. They can not be erased from the Internet nor canceled out of social media. You can create archives of posters, flyers, ‘zines, stickers, videotapes, and etc. On more than one occasion I’ve come across these materials on the dusty back shelves of libraries or the even dustier spare rooms of veteran activists.
More recently, there have been the rise of various nationalist art collectives, which is good. There’s also the morale building aspect of having a team out on the streets putting up those posters and flyers, or performing the impromptu flash banner drop. Of course, there is the dilemma created by state repression these days, with people going to jail for such offenses as putting up flyers.
Let’s see some more discussion on poster tactics, including reports from the front.
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