Utopian Globalists WOL

"The Utopian Globalists: Artists of Worldwide Revolution, 1919-2009" by Jonathan Harris(auth.), published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 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 Picasso’s late 1940s commitment to Communism, to the Unilever Series sponsored Large Artworks installed at London’s Tate Modern since 2000. Includes the only substantial account in print of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 Montreal ‘Bed-in’ Offers an accessible description and interpretation of Debord’s ‘society of the spectacle’ theory Content: Chapter None Introduction (pages 1–33): Chapter 1 Spectacle, Social Transformation and Utopian Globalist Art (pages 34–75): Chapter 2 The Line of Liberation (pages 76–117): Chapter 3 Picasso for the Proletariat (pages 118–164): Chapter 4 Some Kind of Druid Dude (pages 165–210): Chapter 5 ‘Bed?in’ as Gesamtkunstwerk (pages 211–245): Chapter 6 Mother Nature on the Run (pages 246–286): Chapter 7 Nomadic Globalism (pages 287–315): Book details: 357 pages, published 2013. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.