03908oam 2200517 450 991082283900332120190911100039.01-118-31816-11-118-31680-01-4051-9301-81-118-31679-710.1002/9781118318164(OCLoC)828676963(MiFhGG)GVRL6RNS(EXLCZ)99371000000012741020120904d2013 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrThe utopian globalists artists of worldwide revolution, 1919-2009 /Jonathan HarrisChichester, West SussexWiley-Blackwell2013Chichester, West Sussex, UK :Wiley-Blackwell, a John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., publication,2013.1 online resource (xii, 347 pages) illustrationsGale eBooksIncludes index1-322-11045-X 1-4051-9300-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph page -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The World in a Work of Art -- Global Order, Social Order, Visual Order -- 'Globalization' and 'Globalism' in Theory and Practice -- Capitalism and Communism as (Failed) Utopian Totalities -- Ideal and Real Collectivities -- 1. Spectacle, Social Transformation and Utopian Globalist Art -- Spectacular Cold War Communisms and Capitalisms -- Alienation/Separation and State Power -- System, Totality, Representation and the 'Utopian Imaginary' -- The 'Conquest of Space', Spectacular Art and Globalist Vision -- 2. The Line of Liberation Revolutionary Rupture, Structure and Sense -- Space and Symbolism -- Beyond Order -- Collectivity and Necessity -- 3. Picasso for the Proletariat -- Commitment to the Cause, Right or Wrong -- Picasso as Screen -- Image, Persona, Mediations -- Picasso's Use and Exchange Value -- 4. Some Kind of Druid Dude -- Tatlin for the Television Generation -- The Beuysian Spectacular Persona -- The Spirit of the Earth -- Process, Performance, Metabolic Transformation -- Political Actions -- 5. 'Bed-in' as Gesamtkunstwerk -- Sugar, Sugar -- A Sequestered Zone of Peace -- Just My Imagination -- A Man from Liverpool and a Woman from Tokyo -- 6. Mother Nature on the Run -- Transmission, Replacement, Negation, Deletion -- West/East-North/South -- Banality as Tactic -- Austerity Globalism's Body-Politic -- 'Development' Exposed -- 7. Nomadic Globalism -- The Negation Negated -- Art, Business, Diplomacy -- The Materials of Spectacle -- Form as Sedimented Content -- Seductive Acts of Occlusion -- Conclusion -- The Void of Possibilities -- Disappeared -- Index.An innovative history and critical account mapping the ways artists and their works have engaged with, and offered commentary on, modern spectacle in both capitalist and socialist modernism over the past ninety years. Focuses on artists whose work expresses the concept of revolutionary social transformation Provides a strong historical narrative that adds structure and clarity. Features a cogent and innovative critique of contemporary art and institutions. Covers 100 years of art from Vladimir Tatlin's constructivist 'Monument to the Third International', to PArt and globalizationHistory20th centuryArt and globalizationHistory21st centuryArt and globalizationHistoryArt and globalizationHistory709.04702.06njb/09709.04njb/09Harris Jonathan555113MiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910822839003321The utopian globalists3958551UNINA