In today’s British landscape of the arts, Alexander Adams stands out strongly—a craftsman among conceptualists, a “conservative” among self-styled “radicals” and a dogged campaigner for better aesthetics and subtler understanding of the symbioses between culture and politics. In many articles and two books—Culture War: Art, Identity Politics and Cultural Entryism (2019) and Iconoclasm: Identity Politics and the Erasure of History (2020)—Adams defends classical arts but also radical innovation against arts bureaucrats, corporate commodifiers, and the monomaniacs always seeking to co-opt all arts into agendas. This is not to mention his drawings and paintings, held in museums including London’s V&A, in…