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.

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