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Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression – The Creative Independent

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Try typing something like "creative blocks", "spiral", "world", "green" or "blue" and our snail will find what you're looking for. Art is good; self-expression is great. What it isn’t is a substitute for political action to transform the world and challenge power. Art is a very good way of distilling and describing the world and the mood of a time. Some of the painters who painted the wives and families of the robber barons of the 19th century tell you a great deal about what that world was like. What happened from the early 1970s on was a shift, which said self-expression is the new politics. Self-expression is the new way of challenging the bad things in the world. But it can’t, because the whole world is actually based upon self-expression. Maybe there is a new radical way of looking at the world. A new exciting, fresh way which we haven’t seen yet because it doesn’t fit with our preconceptions. Every age has a thing that it deeply believes in that 50 years later people will look ba

Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression Prelude Adam Curtis Journalist Adam Curtis is a BBC journalist who makes documentaries exploring the superstructures of society. His filmmaking is iconic: montages using BBC archival footage he sources; great music that builds emotion and fun; and his inquisitive voice asking challenging questions about power and self. Conversation March 14, 2017 - Adam Curtis is a BBC journalist who makes documentaries exploring the superstructures of society. His filmmaking is iconic: montages using BBC archival footage he sources; great music that builds emotion

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