Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History

Alexander Adams is a British artist and writer. He studied fine art and history of art at Goldsmiths College, London. His art has been exhibited worldwide and is in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), National Museum (Cardiff), Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool) and other museums. His art criticism has been published in The Burlington Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Sculpture Journal, The Jackdaw, The British Art Journal, Apollo, Printmaking Today, Print Quarterly and other outlets. His poetry has been published in anthologies, broadsides and single-author volumes in the UK and USA. He was artist-in-residence at the Albers Foundation, Connecticut, in 2011. Alexander Adams is the recipient of the 2018 Artist Scholarship from the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation, Monaco. He lives in England. Dr. Frank Furedi is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent in Canterbury and Senior Research Fellow at the Twenty-First Century Institute in Budapest, Visiting Professor, UCL Institute For Risk And Disaster Reduction. His latest book is Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn The Art of Drawing Lines.