The Utopian Globalists

Jonathan Harris 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2013년 01월 02일 출간

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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 clarityFeatures a cogent and innovative critique of contemporary art and institutionsCovers 100 years of art from Vladimir Tatlin's constructivist lsquo;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 lsquo;Bed-in'Offers an accessible description and interpretation of Debord's lsquo;society of the spectacle' theory

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List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgements xiIntroduction: The World in a Work of Art 1Global Order, Social Order, Visual Order 2‘Globalization&' and ‘Globalism&' in Th eory and Practice 10Capitalism and Communism as (Failed) Utopian Totalities 16Ideal and Real Collectivities 231 Spectacle, Social Transformation and Utopian Globalist Art 34Spectacular Cold War Communisms and Capitalisms 35Alienation/Separation and State Power 44System, Totality, Representation and the ‘Utopian Imaginary&' 51The ‘Conquest of Space&', Spectacular Art and Globalist Vision 572 The Line of Liberation: Tatlin&'s Tower and the CommunistConstruction of Global Revolution 76Revolutionary Rupture, Structure and Sense 77Space and Symbolism 85Beyond Order 95Collectivity and Necessity 1033 Picasso for the Proletariat: ‘The Most Famous Communist in the World &'118Commitment to the Cause, Right or Wrong 119Picasso as Screen 129Image, Persona, Mediations 139Picasso &' s Use and Exchange Value 1474 Some Kind of Druid Dude: Joseph Beuys&'s Liturgies of Freedom 165Tatlin for the Television Generation 166Th e Beuysian Spectacular Persona 171Th e Spirit of the Earth 179Process, Performance, Metabolic Transformation 185Political Actions 1915 ‘Bed-in&' as Gesamtkunstwerk: A Typical Morning in the Quest for World Peace 211Sugar, Sugar 212A Sequestered Zone of Peace 217Just My Imagination 225A Man from Liverpool and a Woman from Tokyo 2296 Mother Nature on the Run: Austerity Globalist Depletions in the 1970s 246Transmission, Replacement, Negation, Deletion 247West/East&n-North/South 253Banality as Tactic 260Austerity Globalism's Body-Politic 265‘Devel

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저자(글) Jonathan Harris

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Jonathan Harris is Professor in Global Art and Design Studies at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK. Prof. Harris's work has consistently explored questions of state power, culture, art, ideology and social order, particularly in Europe and America over the last century. His The New Art History: A Critical Introduction (2001) remains a classic text, and he has published 17 books as editor, author and co-author, including Globalization and Contemporary Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).