Editing Stuckism (section)

==Manifestos==
[[Image:2000 Real Turner Prize Show.jpg|thumb|left|The first Stuckists group of 13 artists at the ''Real Turner Prize Show'', Pure Gallery, Shoreditch, London, in October 2000]]

In August 1999, Childish and Thomson wrote ''The Stuckists [[manifesto]]''<ref name=stuckistmanifest/> which stress the value of painting as a medium, its use for communication, and the expression of emotion and experience – as opposed to what Stuckists see as the superficial novelty, nihilism and irony of conceptual art and [[postmodernism]]. The most contentious statement in the manifesto is: "Artists who don't paint aren't artists".<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/stuckists-scourge-of-britart-put-on-their-own-exhibition-413009.html Stuckists, scourge of BritArt, put on their own exhibition] Sarah Cassidy, ''[[The Independent]]'', 23 August 2006,</ref>

The second and third manifestos, ''An Open Letter to Sir Nicholas Serota'' and ''[[Remodernism]]'' respectively, were sent to the director of the [[Tate]], [[Nicholas Serota]]. He sent a brief reply: "Thank you for your open letter dated 6&nbsp;March. You will not be surprised to learn that I have no comment to make on your letter, or your manifesto 'Remodernism'."<ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/serotareply.html "An open letter to Sir Nicholas Serota"], stuckism.com, 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2007</ref>

In the ''Remodernism'' manifesto, the Stuckists declared that they aimed to replace postmodernism with remodernism, a period of renewed spiritual (as opposed to religious) values in art, culture and society. Other manifestos have included ''Handy Hints'', ''Anti-anti-art'', ''The Cappuccino writer and the Idiocy of Contemporary Writing'', ''The Turner Prize'', ''The Decreptitude of the Critic'' and ''Stuckist critique of Damien Hirst''.

In ''Anti-anti-art'', the Stuckists outlined their opposition to what is known as "[[anti-art]]".<ref name="thomson" />  Stuckists claim that [[conceptual art]] is justified by the work of [[Marcel Duchamp]], but that Duchamp's work is "anti-art by intent and effect". The Stuckists feel that "Duchamp's work was a protest against the stale, unthinking artistic establishment of his day", while "the great (but wholly unintentional) irony of [[Postmodern art|postmodernism]] is that it is a direct equivalent of the conformist, unoriginal establishment that Duchamp attacked in the first place".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.angelfire.com/art2/asullivan/stuckism.html |title=Stuckism : Art Against Art Against Art |publisher=Angelfire.com |access-date=2013-10-21}}</ref>

Manifestos have been written by other Stuckists, including the Students for Stuckism group. An "Underage Stuckists" group was founded in 2006 with a manifesto for teenagers written by two 16-year-olds, Liv Soul and Rebekah Maybury, on [[MySpace]].<ref>[http://www.stuckism.com/Manifestos/UnderageStuckists.html "The Underage Stuckists Manifesto"], stuckism.com. Retrieved 25 April 2006</ref> In 2009, a group calling itself The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists published ''The Founding, Manifesto and Rules of The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists''.<ref name="Danchev2011">{{cite book |last=Danchev |first=Alex |title=100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L80epydK6qcC&pg=PT537 |year=2011 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-193215-6 |page=537}}</ref>