Stewart Home

Quick Facts

Full Name	Stewart Home
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Mar 24, 1962(1962-03-24)
Age	62
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Stewart Home Biography

Stewart Home is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on March 24, 1962 in London, England, United Kingdom. Kevin Llewellyn Callan (born 24 March 1962) is better known by his stage name of Stewart Home, is an English filmmaker, artist as well as a writer, pamphleteer and activist, and historian. His most famous work is his novels, including the non-narrative Things to Do with a Dead Princess (2002) as well as his reimagining of his time in 1960 of the 1960s in Tainted Love (2005), and his earlier parodistic pulp stories Pure Mania, Red London, No Pity, Cunt, and Defiant Pose which parody the work of the 1970s British skinhead pulp novelist Richard Allen and combine it with pornography, political agitprop and references to historical music and art avant garde.

When he was a teenager, Home was initially drawn to bohemianism and music, and later, to radicalism. He was a member of a variety of leftist groups , including several that were run in The Trotskyist Socialist Youth League and even two editorial meetings of Anarchy Magazine. He was not a member of any of these organizations and later disregarded their stance as reactionary, rather than declaring his own communist political views following his membership in the London Workers Group. In the latter part of the seventies, Home released the first of his punk (music) fanzine, including the first editions of “Down in the Street” that had a run of seven issues when Home stopped publishing it in the year 1980. The end of the seventies, Home also had his first public performances as a musician, particularly as a bassist in the pioneering ska group The Molotovs. The group was a mix of reggae hits such as ‘Johnny Too Bad as well as original tunes like “Notting Hill Carnival” (about the rioting) and ‘Don’t envy the Boss’ (the juvenile irony of the chorus was “don’t envy the boss, I know he’s got a lot, but he really really earned the money to pay for his yacht”).

From 1982 to 1984, Home operated as a one-person-movement “Generation Positive”, and having already founded a punk band called White Colours (named after an experimental novel by R. D. Reeve) in 1980, he started a new group with the same name in 1982. He also published an art fanzine SMILE, the name of which was a play on the Mail Art zines FILE and VILE (which in turn parodied the graphic design of LIFE magazine). The concept was that many other bands in the world should call themselves White Colours, and many other underground periodicals should call themselves SMILE, too. Home’s early SMILE magazines mostly contained art manifestos for the “Generation Positive”, which in their rhetoric resembled those of 1920s Berlin Dadaist manifestos.

In April 1984, Home got in touch with the originally American subcultural artistic network of Neoism, and participated in the eighth Neoist Apartment Festival in London. Since Neoism operated with multiple identities, too, and called upon all its participants to adopt the name Monty Cantsin, Home decided to give up the “Generation Positive” in favor of Neoism, and make SMILE and White Colours part of Neoism as well. According to Florian Cramer (who didn’t come into contact with Neoism until the late eighties) one year later, Home took a sleep-deprivation prank played with him at a Neoist Festival in Italy as the reason to declare his split from Neoism; Home insists he decided to break with Neoism before going to Italy. Shortly before, a conflict between him and Neoism founder Istvan Kantor had escalated and led to their alienation.

In the wake of this, and drawing inspiration from 1980s American art of appropriation The concept of plagiarism developed by Home was soon morphed into a movement and a set of “Festivals of Plagiarism” in 1988 and 1989. These also re-used the Neoist festival of the apartment and the in the 1960s Fluxus festivals. Home also incorporated the plagiarism initiative with a request to the organization of an Art Strike between 1990 and 1993. In contrast to previous art-strike ideas like that of Gustav Metzger during the 1970s, it was not meant to be an occasion for artists to take control over the methods of distributing their work, but rather an exercise in propagandism and psychic warfare that aimed at crushing the entire art market and not only an art gallery.

Stewart Home Net Worth

Stewart Home is one of the richest Writer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stewart Home 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Despite its name it was not a Neoist Alliance. Neoist Alliance had no affiliation with the global Neoist network, which was active since. Stewart Home had previously become an activist and member of that group in 1984, but then resigned the organization a year later. He continued to work under the collective monikers “Praxis”, later “plagiarism” and the Art Strike movement.

In the 1980s Home was also a regular contributor to the anarcho-punk/cultural magazine VAGUE.

In the 1980s and 1990s, he exhibited art and also wrote a number of non- fiction pamphlets, magazines, and books, and edited anthologies. They chiefly reflected the politics of the radical left, punk culture, the occult, the history and influence of the Situationists – of whom he is a severe critic – and other radical left-wing 20th century anti-art avant-garde movements. In Home’s earlier work, the focus of these reflections was often Neoism, a subcultural network of which he had been a member, and from which he derived various splinter projects. Typical characteristics of his activism in the 1980s and 1990s included use of group identities (such as Monty Cantsin) and collective monikers (e.g. “Karen Eliot”); overt employment of plagiarism; pranks and publicity stunts. He attending Kingston University as a mature student reading psychology.

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Pure Mania, Home’s first novel from 1989, took the recipe of the Richard Allen parodies from SMILE and turned them into a recipe for much of his subsequent novel writing of the 1990s (there are exceptions such as the non-linear “Come Before Christ & Murder Love”). The book Neoist Manifestos/The Art Strike Papers featured, on its first part, abridged versions of Home’s manifesto- style writings from SMILE, and a compilation of writings and reactions regarding the Art Strike from various authors and sources, mainly Mail Art publications.

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Stewart Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Stewart Home celebrates birthday on March 24 of every year.

Aware of the marked decline in countercultural activities throughout the urban centres in which he operated, Home shifted gear in this area of his work in the new millennium, upping his level of Internet activities; web work had been only a minor part of his repertoire in the 1990s. Aside from running his own website, Home is a dedicated blogger and had six separate MySpace profiles (as well as having active accounts with other social networking sites such as Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Facebook). However, given Home’s extrovert personality, he maintains a taste for live appearances and in 2007 began performing ventriloquism in public.