The Utopian Globalists: Artists of Worldwide Revolution, 1919-2009 -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The World in a Work of Art -- Global Order, Social Order, Visual Order -- 'Globalization' and 'Globalism' in Theory and Practice -- Capitalism and Communism as (Failed) Utopian Totalities -- Ideal and Real Collectivities -- Notes -- 1 Spectacle, Social Transformation and Utopian Globalist Art -- Spectacular Cold War Communisms and Capitalisms -- Alienation/Separation and State Power -- System, Totality, Representation and the 'Utopian Imaginary' -- The 'Conquest of Space', Spectacular Art and Globalist Vision -- Notes -- 2 The Line of Liberation: Tatlin's Tower and the Communist Construction of Global Revolution -- Revolutionary Rupture, Structure and Sense -- Space and Symbolism -- Beyond Order -- Collectivity and Necessity -- Notes -- 3 Picasso for the Proletariat: 'The Most Famous Communist in the World' -- Commitment to the Cause, Right or Wrong -- Picasso as Screen -- Image, Persona, Mediations -- Picasso's Use and Exchange Value -- Notes -- 4 Some Kind of Druid Dude: Joseph Beuys's Liturgies of Freedom -- Tatlin for the Television Generation -- The Beuysian Spectacular Persona -- The Spirit of the Earth -- Process, Performance, Metabolic Transformation -- Political Actions -- Notes -- 5 'Bed-in' as Gesamtkunstwerk: A Typical Morning in the Quest for World Peace -- Sugar, Sugar -- A Sequestered Zone of Peace -- Just My Imagination -- A Man from Liverpool and a Woman from Tokyo -- Notes -- 6 Mother Nature on the Run: Austerity Globalist Depletions in the 1970s -- Transmission, Replacement, Negation, Deletion -- West/East-North/South -- Banality as Tactic -- Austerity Globalism's Body-Politic -- 'Development' Exposed -- Notes.

7 Nomadic Globalism: Scenographica in Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Wrapped Reichstag -- The Negation Negated -- Art, Business, Diplomacy -- The Materials of Spectacle -- Form as Sedimented Content -- Seductive Acts of Occlusion -- Notes -- Conclusion: From the Spiral to the Turbine: A Global Warning -- Large Rooms Full of Wonderful Curiosities -- The Void of Possibilities -- Disappeared -- Notes -- Index.