Talk:Anarchism and the arts

Tolkein an anarchist?

JRR Tolkein an anarchist?!!! I want a citation!!! I have never heard anything along those lines and I would doubt it. If he were an anarchist it would have been Exile of the King not Return of the King. I think that is very dubious and until there is a citation I am taking it out. I will say I would love for that to be true, but I doubt it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.114.222.150 (talk • contribs) (05:40, 6 July 2005)

actually, there's some scholarly research to suggest that in some ways he was sympathetic to anarchism, but wasn't a traditional anarchist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.19.219.215 (talk • contribs) (20:59, 9 December 2005)

quite interesting. Do you know where I can learn more? The Ungovernable Force 06:06, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

"My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood to mean abolition of control, not whiskered men with bombs) – or to 'unconstitutional' Monarchy." From The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, no. 52, to Christopher Tolkien on 29 November 1943. скоморохъ 08:35, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't have a copy, but around the time the first LOTR movie was coming out, Earth First! printed some letters from Tolkien talking about considering himself an anarchist and how he thought that the internal combustion engine (or maybe it was cars?) was the worst invention people had ever come up with. Murderbike (talk) 08:39, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Tolkein definitely hated cars, yes. He is, though, an anarchist in what I think Colin Ward called the "quietist tradition of William Morris," and not the more fire-breathing tradition of, say, Bakunin or Malatesta. He hated technological progress, mass society, urbanism, etc., which means he had something in common with Earth First!ers, with cultural conservatives like T. S. Eliot, Marxist critics like Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer, and anarchists like Dwight MacDonald. Rather a strange assortment, I'd say. ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 16:38, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, Tolkein was a self-proclaimed anarchist. The theme of Lord of the Ring was destroying power, not giving it to any person or institution. Another theme was the corrupting effect of power, even on good people. Here's a Tolkein quote:

"My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) -- or to 'unconstitutional' Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inanimate realm of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance of recantation, execute them if they remain obstinate!... Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people... The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity."

So I'm putting him back into the Prose section. PhilLiberty (talk) 17:15, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Picasso?

no mention of Picasso? there should be! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.140.104.77 (talk • contribs) (23:53, 1 May 2006) As he was a member of the Stalinist Communist PArty of France, I don't think so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.190.195.237 (talk) 13:22, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

John Yates

I am not familiar with this person. The link in this article is to another article about a Police Commissioner named John Yates. Is there not an article about the anarchist artist John Yates, or is the link simply directed to the wrong article? Kazhivlad 09:25, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

reggae/rasta

"Reggae music plays an important role in the Rastafari religion, which has much in common with anarchism."

Rastafari is based on the divinity of Emporer Haile Selassie. My understanding is that anarchists are generally not in favour of either god or royalty. John Eden 10:33, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Dario Fo

It would be lovely to see him included. "The Accidental Death of an Anarchist" is an excellent play showcasing anarchist ideas. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.38.215.226 (talk) 00:57, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

John Cage

Where is he? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.74.11.13 (talk) 21:13, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

WP:SOFIXIT :) Skomorokh 21:24, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

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Should we add Watchmen to Moore's section?

Watchmen has a ton of Anarchist themes along with VfV, so should we add it? Corbasm2 (talk) 14:14, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Artists and artworks inspired by anarchism

Visual arts

• Enrico Baj (Funeral of the Anarchist Pinelli)
• Beehive Collective
• Carlo Carrà (The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli)
• David Chichkan
• Carlos Cortez
• Flavio Costantini
• Gustave Courbet
• Christopher D'Arcangelo
• Eric Drooker
• Marcel Duchamp
• Mike Flugennock
• Juan Gris
• Clifford Harper
• Stewart Home
• Donald Judd
• Wassily Kandinsky
• Latuff
• Josh MacPhee

• Louis Moreau
• William Morris
• Arthur Moyse
• Barnett Newman
• Richard Olmsted
• Roberto Paci Dalò
• Stass Paraskos
• Francis Picabia
• Camille Pissarro
• Sigmar Polke
• José Guadalupe Posada
• Mark Rothko
• Georges Seurat
• Paul Signac
• Winston Smith
• Walter Swennen
• Vladimir Tatlin
• Félix Vallotton
• Gee Vaucher

Comics and sequential art

• Roberto Ambrosoli
  • Anarchik
• J. Daniels
  • The Adventures of Tintin: Breaking Free
• Alan Grant
  • Anarky
  • Batman: Anarky
• Jay Kinney
  • Anarchy Comics

• Alan Moore
  • V for Vendetta
  • Watchmen
• Grant Morrison
  • The Invisibles
• Donald Rooum
  • Wildcat
• Seth Tobocman
• Chaz Wood
  • The Black Flag (graphic novel)

Music

• Georges Brassens
• Léo Ferré
  • Amour Anarchie
  • Il n'y a plus rien
  • La Violence et l'Ennui
• Étienne Roda-Gil
  • La Makhnovtchina

Prose

• Edward Abbey
  • The Brave Cowboy
  • Good News
  • The Monkey Wrench Gang
• Isaac Babel
  • Discourse on the "Tachanka", Collected Stories
  • Old man Makhno
• Iain M. Banks
  • The Culture series
• Don Bannister
  • Hard Walls of Ego
• Ralph Bates
  • Lean Men (1934)
• Alexander Berkman
  • Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist [1912]
• Horst Bienek
  • Bakunin: An Invention (1970)
• André Breton
• Albert Camus
• Joseph Conrad
  • The Secret Agent (1907)
• Stig Dagerman
• Samuel R. Delany
  • Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia (1976)
• Philip K. Dick
  • The Last of the Masters (1954)
• E L Doctorow
  • Ragtime (1975)
• Martin B. Duberman
  • Haymarket (2003)
• Greg Egan
• Dario Fo
  • Accidental Death of an Anarchist
• William Godwin
  • Caleb Williams (1794)
• Pietro Gori
  • Primo Maggio (1895)
• Frank Harris
  • The Bomb (1908)
• M. John Harrison
• Jaroslav Hašek
  • The Good Soldier Švejk
• Robert A. Heinlein
  • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
• Max Hertzberg
  • Stealing The Future
• Henry James
  • The Princess Casamassima (1886)
• Ba Jin
  • The Family (1931)
• Rachel Kushner
  • The Flamethrowers
• Maurice Leblanc
  • Arsène Lupin books, inspired by Marius Jacob
• Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Dispossessed
• Emanuel Litvinoff
  • A Death Out Of Season
• J. William Lloyd
• John Henry Mackay
  • Der Schwimmer (1901)

• Ken MacLeod
  • Fall Revolution sequence
• Leo Malet
  • Fog on the Tolbiac Bridge
• Ethel Mannin
  • Red Rose
  • The Lover Under Another Name
• Henry Miller
  • Tropic of Cancer
• Michael Moorcock
• George Orwell
  • Homage to Catalonia (1938)
• Michael Paraskos
  • In Search of Sixpence (2016)
• Émile Pataud (and Émile Pouget)
  • How Shall We Bring About The Revolution? (1913)
• Pedro de Paz
  • The Man Who Killed Durruti
• Marge Piercy
  • Woman on the Edge of Time
• Emeric Pressburger
  • Killing a Mouse on Sunday
• Thomas Pynchon
  • Against the Day (2006)
• Adam Roberts
  • Salt
• Olivia & Helen Rossetti
  • A Girl Among the Anarchists (1903) by Isabel Meredith (fictional memoir)
• Eric Frank Russell
  • ...And Then There Were None (also here and here ) (1951; expanded into novel The Great Explosion, 1962)
• Ramon J. Sender
  • Seven Red Sundays (1932)
• Victor Serge
  • Birth of our Power
  • Men in Prison
• Upton Sinclair
  • Boston (1928)
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Leo Tolstoy
• B. Traven
  • Government (1931)
  • The Carreta (1931)
  • March to the Monteria (1933)
  • The Troza (1936)
  • The Rebellion of the Hanged (1936)
  • The General From The Jungle (1940)
• Lois Waisbrooker
• Richard Whiteing
  • No. 5 John Street
• Oscar Wilde
• Robert Anton Wilson
  • Illuminatus trilogy
  • Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati
• Émile Zola
  • Germinal (1885)
  • The Debacle (1892)

Poetry

• Tony Blackplait
• Sean Bonney
• Raegan Butcher
• Voltairine De Cleyre
• Hugo Dewar
  • Barcelona (1936)
• Diane di Prima
  • Revolutionary Letters
• Mirzadeh Eshghi
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Léo Ferré (also singer and musician)
• Pietro Gori
• Sadakichi Hartmann
• Joe Hill
• Philip Lamantia
• Philip Levine
• John Henry Mackay
  • Anarchy
• John Manifold
  • Makhno's Philosophers

• Nestor Makhno
• Renzo Novatore
• Kenneth Patchen
• Benjamin Péret
• Fernando Pessoa
  • O Banqueiro Anarquista* Herbert Read
• Kenneth Rexroth
  • Again at Waldheim
• Lola Ridge
• Karl Shapiro
  • Death of Emma Goldman
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Gary Snyder
• Ernst Toller
• George Woodcock
  • Black Flag

Television and films

• Julian Beck
  • Actor, director and painter who founded "The Living Theatre" with Judith Malina
• Kevin Brownlow
• Luis Buñuel
  • In particular, his documentary Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan
• Peter Coyote
• Martin B. Duberman
  • Mother Earth: An Epic Drama of Emma Goldman's Life
• Jon Jost
• Nelly Kaplan
• Adonis Kyrou
• Judith Malina
  • Actress who was an integral part of the "Living Theater" with her husband
• Godfrey Reggio
• Jean Vigo
• Peter Watkins
• Yoshishige Yoshida
  • Directed Eros Plus Massacre, about anarchists Sakae Ōsugi and Noe Itō
• Yu Yong-Sik
  • Directed Anarchists, about an underground cell of insurrectionary anarchists

Theatre/drama

• Carol Bolt
  • Red Emma: Queen of the Anarchists (1974)
• Martin B. Duberman
  • Mother Earth: An Epic Drama of Emma Goldman's Life (1991)
• Fredy Perlman
  • Illyria Street Commune
• Tom Stoppard
  • The Coast of Utopia (A Trilogy) (2002)
• Howard Zinn
  • Emma: A Play in Two Acts about Emma Goldman, American Anarchist (2002)

Video games

The following video games feature anarchism or anarchists

• Disco Elysium - anarchists are mentioned in the game's story and the fictional city of Revachol is named after Ravachol
• Fallout: New Vegas - the faction Follows of the Apocalypse are based on anarchists and leftists
• Grand Theft Auto V - the character Curtis Weaver is a parody of a left-wing anarchist, and there is graffiti referencing the EZLN
• Hearts of Iron IV
• LA Noire - The mission "The Gas Man" features several pamphlets by Peter Kropotkin
• Red Dead Redemption 2 - Dutch van der Linde is described on the Rockstar Games website as "Idealistic, anarchic, charismatic, well-read, well-lived."
• Shadowrun: Dragonfall is set in an anarchist Berlin
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. features anarchists based on the Makhnovschina
• Tonight We Riot

Template:Reflist-talk Template:Collapse bottom Moving this mostly unsourced list to the talk page for future consideration. It currently reads like an "in popular culture" hodge podge when it would benefit from conversion to prose and discussing prominent themes. We have categories to cover the independently notable list elements that have defining connections with anarchism. czar 13:33, 11 October 2024 (UTC)