Adam Dant's Political Maps

Adam Dant studied at the Royal College of Art, London and the MS University Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, India. He creates dense, elaborate narrative drawings that examine and depict public contemporary life, space, mythologies and histories. These works are thoroughly researched, with the artist drawing on a deep well of historical and visual sources to create his wittily perceptive detailed drawings. Dant lives and works in London.Adam Dant studied at the Royal College of Art, London and the MS University Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, India. He creates dense, elaborate narrative drawings that examine and depict public contemporary life, space, mythologies and histories. These works are thoroughly researched, with the artist drawing on a deep well of historical and visual sources to create his wittily perceptive detailed drawings. Dant lives and works in London.

• Introduction 8Division 10The Mother of Parliaments 12The Government Stable 14Johnson's London 20The Ministry + Passion of J.C 22British Left Groups 24Stop That Brexit 28Ruritanian Europe 30The Invasions of the British Isles 32Quitting Europe: Some Anecdotes 34Rudimentary London 38The London Rebus 40Viral London 42Iconoclastic London 44The London Calendar 46The Universal London Underground Map 48The Critic's Perpetual Drinking Calendar 50Jewish Spitalfields 52Club Row Through the Ages 54Guardians of London's Lost Rivers 62Civil War Defences 64Argonautica Londinensi 66Triumph of Debt, Royal Exchange Square 68Triumph of Debt, Canary Wharf 70Moneyscrape 72Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom 74Presidents of the United States of America 76Cockney Rhyming America 78New York Tawk 80Paris Argot 82The Oxford Meridian 84Metaphysical Cambridge 94Theatreland 96A Map of the National Gallery: London's Collection of Subliminal Images 98Tulip Fever 102Coco-opolis 104Scottish London 106A Walk Round the End of the World 108Lindon: A Map of London as it Might Have Been 110The Mind of East London 112The Gentle Author's Tour of Spitalfields 114The Paradise of Sleaze 116The Great British Beast Chase 118The Meeting of the Old & the New East End in Redchurch St 120Operation Owl Club 122An Encyclopedy of Ye Age of Enlightenment Citizens & Kings 124Stanfords World of Covent Garden 126Acknowledgements and Credits 128

‘Highly entertaining … long may Dant’s sharp eye, brain and pen flourish’The Art NewspaperMaev Kennedy2022‘A political tour de force … there is much comfort and joy to be found in art, and in particular the subversive and creative humour of Adam Dant’ The HouseDouglas Champan2022‘An absolute must-purchase for anyone who draws a mote of joy from gazing at artistic maps... which is to say, everybody’LondonistMatt Brown2022‘Majestic and colourful’TLS (Times Literary Supplement)2022‘A very Shoreditch sort of a book, steeped in a sense of place and history. But don’t throw away your atlas … just yet, for it is primarily a guide to navigation for the mind’The World of InteriorsStephen Patience