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The utopian globalists : artists of worldwide revolution, 1919-2009

Harris, Jonathan (Jonathan P.), author

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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 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 \"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Subject: Art and globalization History 20th century. / Art and globalization History 21st century. / ART / History / Contemporary (1945-).
• ISBN: 9781405193016, 1405193018, 9781405193009, 140519300X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N72.G55 H37 2013	1	BOOK	ARTS