Stuckism was an art movement that emerged in 1999 to revisit figurative painting as a reaction to conceptual art. The main progenitors Billy Childish and Charles Thompson wrote several manifestos that sought to exalt skill, craft, and authenticity.
As boomers age, I predict 80s Stuckism will become more prevalent. I know that I've indulged in it recently by revisiting the way I worked in the 80s--reviving old pieces and using computers (as instruments) less.
Stuckism is a natural reaction to the revolutionary ideologies of futurism, attempting to reclaim what seemingly gets lost in the march to the future.
If you read the Futurist Manifesto by Marinetti (1909) you realize that futurism is a form of cultism, and continues to replay itself in the 2020s. (Mussolini and Marinetti were contemporaries, and future despots will find their Marinettis and Mussolinis will find their Marinettis. (Think Elon Musk and [Future Dictator]). But also consider the ripple effects of Futurism in art for decades in many forms art, Aeropainting, one of my favorites, as an example. Futurists want radical revolutions, but the radical artists just want to go about their business as before, and as with Aeropainting, much cooler than the futurist delusions.
"We must fight against puddles of sauce, disordered heaps of food, and above all, against flabby, anti-virile pastasciutta."--Marinetti
I have been trying to find an analogy from another time in which younger generations had recontextualized history through technology so profoundly. We have the obvious examples: photography/painting, recordings/live performances, digital art auctioned at Christie's for $70 million/DIY art for the fun of it.
It makes you want to stop yourself in your tracks and be nostalgic for your old ways of working because they worked just fine.
Takeaways:
"Feeling nostalgic for a time one didn’t actually live through appears to be a common phenomenon if all the chatrooms, Facebook pages and websites dedicated to it are anything to go by. In fact, a new word has been coined to capture this precise variant of nostalgia – anemoia, defined by the Urban Dictionary and the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows as ‘nostalgia for a time you’ve never known." https://aeon.co/essays/nostalgia-doesnt-need-real-memories-an-imagined-past-works-as-well
If you remove nostalgia, then the future is only a myopic vision.
Nostalgia might be an indication that you don't like where the world went.