Remodernism
Description
Remodernism is a stuckist philosophical movement aimed at reviving aspects of modernism, particularly in its early form, in a manner that both follows after and contrasts against postmodernism. The movement was initiated in 2000 by stuckists Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, with a manifesto, Remodernism in an attempt to introduce a period of new "spirituality" into art, culture and society to replace postmodernism, which they said was cynical and spiritually bankrupt. In 2002, a remodernism art show in Albuquerque was accompanied by an essay from University of California, Berkeley art professor, Kevin Radley. Adherents of remodernism advocate it as a forward and radical, not reactionary, impetus. Read more ↗
Key Artists
Billy Childish
Co-founder of Stuckism who inaugurated the philosophical period of Remodernism on March 1, 2000, co-authoring its manifesto calling for a new spiritual renewal in art.
Charles Thomson
Co-founder of Stuckism and primary theorist of Remodernism who co-authored the 2000 Remodernism manifesto and organized international Remodernist exhibitions.
Jesse Richards
Prominent American artist and filmmaker who authored the 2008 Remodernist Film Manifesto and founded the International Alliance of Remodernist Filmmakers to apply Remodernist values to cinema.
Kevin Radley
University of California, Berkeley art professor who provided the scholarly theoretical essay accompanying the pivotal 2002 Remodernism art exhibition in Albuquerque.
Gary Brewer
American painter whose 2002 exhibition 'Defending Drama' in Albuquerque served as a major early public showcase for Remodernist figurative and spiritual principles.
Famous Artworks
Fun Facts
In their March 1, 2000 Remodernism manifesto, Billy Childish and Charles Thomson famously declared: 'Modernism has progressively lost its way, until finally toppling into the bottomless pit of Postmodern balderdash.'
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In 2008, Evening Standard art critic Ben Lewis applied the concept of Remodernism directly to three Turner Prize nominees, identifying a growing international movement that revived the formal aesthetic values and sincerity of early 20th-century modernism.
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