The Utopian Globalists: Artists of Worldwide Revolution, 1919 - 2009 Hardcover - 2013 - 1st Edition
by Jonathan Harris
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"Crossing continents, historical periods and cultural genres, Jonathan Harris skilfully traces the evolution of utopian ideals from early modernism to the spectacularised and biennialised (or banalised as some would say) contemporary art world of today."
Michael Asbury, University of the Arts, London
The Utopian Globalists is the second in a trilogy of books by Jonathan Harris examining the contours, forces, materials and meanings of the global art world, along with its contexts of emergence since the early twentieth century. The first of the three studies, Globalization and Contemporary Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), anatomized the global art system through an extensive anthology of over 30 essays contextualized through multiple thematic introductions. The final book in the series, Contemporary Art in a Globalized World (forthcoming, Wiley-Blackwell), combines the historical and contemporary perspectives of the first and second books in an account focused on the 'mediatizations' shaping and representing contemporary art and its circuits of global production, dissemination and consumption.
This innovative and revealing history examines artists whose work embodies notions of revolution and human social transformation. The clearly structured historical narrative takes the reader on a cultural odyssey that begins with Vladimir Tatlin's constructivist model for a 'Monument to the Third International' (1919), a statement of utopian globalist intent, via Picasso's 1940s commitment to Soviet communism and John and Yoko's Montreal 'Bedin', to what the author calls the 'late globalism' of the Unilever Series at London's Tate Modern.
The book maps the ways artists and their work engaged with, and offered commentary on, modern spectacle in both capitalist and socialist modernism, throughout the eras of the Russian Revolution, the Cold War and the increasingly globalized world of the past 20 years. In doing so, Harris explores the idea that the utopian -globalist lineage in art remains torn between its yearning for freedom and a deepening identification with spectacle as a media commodity to be traded and consumed.
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- Title The Utopian Globalists: Artists of Worldwide Revolution, 1919 - 2009
- Author Jonathan Harris
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
- Date 2013-02
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781405193016 / 1405193018
- Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Art and globalization - History - 20th, Art and globalization - History - 21st
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012035996
- Dewey Decimal Code 709.04
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