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Marshall Plan modernism : Italian postwar abstraction and the beginnings of autonomia / Jaleh Mansoor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mansoor, Jaleh, 1975- author.
- Series:
- Art History Publication Initiative
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Italian--20th century.
- Art, Italian.
- Modernism (Art)--Italy.
- Modernism (Art).
- Art, Abstract--Italy.
- Art, Abstract.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: labor, (workers?) autonomy, (art) work
- The monochrome in the neocapitalist laboratory
- Lucio Fontana and the politics of the gesture
- Alberto Burri's plastics and the political aesthetics of opacity
- "We want to organicize disintegration"
- Conclusion: "Ready-made artist and human strike?" or from autonomy to strike.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822373681
- 0822373688
- OCLC:
- 948670499
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