Mansoor Marshall Plan Modernism

Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7368-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Art History Publication Initiative

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mansoor, Jaleh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.