InhaltsangabeList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction: The World in a Work of Art 1 Global Order, Social Order, Visual Order 2 'Globalization' and 'Globalism' in Th eory and Practice 10 Capitalism and Communism as (Failed) Utopian Totalities 16 Ideal and Real Collectivities 23 1 Spectacle, Social Transformation and Utopian Globalist Art 34 Spectacular Cold War Communisms and Capitalisms 35 Alienation/Separation and State Power 44 System, Totality, Representation and the 'Utopian Imaginary' 51 The 'Conquest of Space', Spectacular Art and Globalist Vision 57 2 The Line of Liberation: Tatlin's Tower and the Communist Construction of Global Revolution 76 Revolutionary Rupture, Structure and Sense 77 Space and Symbolism 85 Beyond Order 95 Collectivity and Necessity 103 3 Picasso for the Proletariat: 'The Most Famous Communist in the World '118 Commitment to the Cause, Right or Wrong 119 Picasso as Screen 129 Image, Persona, Mediations 139 Picasso ' s Use and Exchange Value 147 4 Some Kind of Druid Dude: Joseph Beuys's Liturgies of Freedom 165 Tatlin for the Television Generation 166 Th e Beuysian Spectacular Persona 171 Th e Spirit of the Earth 179 Process, Performance, Metabolic Transformation 185 Political Actions 191 5 'Bedin' as Gesamtkunstwerk: A Typical Morning in the Quest for World Peace 211 Sugar, Sugar 212 A Sequestered Zone of Peace 217 Just My Imagination 225 A Man from Liverpool and a Woman from Tokyo 229 6 Mother Nature on the Run: Austerity Globalist Depletions in the 1970s 246 Transmission, Replacement, Negation, Deletion 247 West/EastNorth/South 253 Banality as Tactic 260 Austerity Globalism's Body-Politic 265 'Development' Exposed 272 7 Nomadic Globalism: Scenographica in Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Wrapped Reichstag 287 Th e Negation Negated 288 Art, Business, Diplomacy 292 The Materials of Spectacle 296 Form as Sedimented Content 299 Seductive Acts of Occlusion 306 Conclusion: From the Spiral to the Turbine: A Global Warning 316 Large Rooms Full of Wonderful Curiosities 317 The Void of Possibilities 320 Disappeared 323 Index 333

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