The utopian globalists
Subtitle: artists of worldwide revolution, 1919-2009
By: Jonathan Harris
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781405193016; 9781405193009
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Art and globalization; ART / History / Contemporary (1945-); History
Description: "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  "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.