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"Armchair destructivist art is marked by a commitment to total destruction and a wholehearted un-acceptance of modernity and/or critical thought.”Jevski - the AD Handbook, 1922
Current day armchair destructivists shirk such total nihilism in favour of more pointed statements. Reformed sculptures carefully wrought from destroyed soft furnishings only to offer the promise of more destruction sit along side stamp designs that document and archive a doomed history of an un-accepted art form in the language of an un-accepted art form. Links are made to an apathetic society that accepts the comfort, the misguidance, and the fear it is fed, and as always, war and a suffering planet are on the agenda.
Miss Pokeno (destructivist) 2006 - on the latest AD action.
Armchair destructivism was a particularly destructive branch of abstract art founded in 1921 by the Russian artist known as Jevski. Branded at the time as “art hooliganism”, armchair destructivism subsequently won little favour within the emerging avant-garde, and despite a huge popularist following that spread across europe and America for decades, little was ever recorded and even less scholarly attention was paid to this remarkable underground art movement.
