Jaleh Mansoor

Marshall Plan Modernism

Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the work of Italian artists Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates and reveals how abstract painting in post-WWII Italy critiqued the economic violence of the Marshall Plan and American hegemony, broke with fascist-associated futurism, and anticipated Italian social unrest in the 1960 and 1970s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 447g
• ISBN-13: 9780822362609
• ISBN-10: 0822362600
• Artikelnr.: 44217543

Autorenporträt

Jaleh Mansoor is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of British Columbia and coeditor of Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Labor, (Workers') Autonomy, (Art) Work  1
1. The Monochrome in the Neocapitalist Laboratory  39
2. Lucio Fontana and the Politics of the Gesture  69
3. Alberto Burri's Plastics and the Political Aesthetics of Opacity  93
4. "We Want to Organicize Disintegration"  119
Conclusion. "Ready-Made Artist and Human Strike" or From Autonomy to
Strike  167
Notes  207
Bibliography  249
Index  265