The utopian globalists : artists of worldwide revolution, 1919-2009 / Jonathan Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Jonathan (Jonathan P.), author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and globalization--History--20th century.

Art and globalization.

Art and globalization--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 347 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, [England] : John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 P

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-118-31816-1

1-118-31680-0

1-4051-9301-8

1-118-31679-7

OCLC:

828676963