Marshall Plan Modernism

Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Av Jaleh Mansoor

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Focusing on artwork by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates and reveals how abstract painting, especially the monochrome, broke with fascist-associated futurism and functioned as an index of social transition in postwar Italy. Mansoor refuses to read the singularly striking formal and procedural violence of Fontana's slit canvasses, Burri's burnt and exploded plastics, and Manzoni's "achromes" as metaphors of traumatic memories of World War II. Rather, she locates the motivation for this violence in the history of the medium of painting and in the economic history of postwar Italy. Reconfiguring the relationship between politics and aesthetics, Mansoor illuminates how the monochrome's reemergence reflected Fontana, Burri, and Manzoni's aesthetic and political critique of the Marshall Plan's economic warfare and growing American hegemony. It also anticipated the struggles in Italy's factories, classrooms, and streets that gave rise to Autonomia in the 1960s. Marshall Plan Modernism refigures our understanding of modernist painting as a project about labor and the geopolitics of postwar reconstruction during the Italian Miracle.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-09-30
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieArt History Publication Initiative
Antal sidor288
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822362456

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Acknowledgments viiIntroduction. Labor, (Workers') Autonomy, (Art) Work 11. The Monochrome in the Neocapitalist Laboratory 392. Lucio Fontana and the Politics of the Gesture 693. Alberto Burri's Plastics and the Political Aesthetics of Opacity 934. "We Want to Organicize Disintegration" 119Conclusion. "Ready-Made Artist and Human Strike" or From Autonomy to Strike 167Notes 207Bibliography 249Index 265

"Brilliantly highlighting the difference between Italian autonomy/autonomia and the far more general and metaphorical evocations of factory work in American-style pop art and minimalism, Mansoor is one among a small group of authors whose work consistently undercut the historicizing and pacifying ism in the concept of modernism. What we gain is an art historical account on par with the multiple upheavals of modernity and their various contingencies."- Ina Blom (Critical Inquiry) "Mansoor’s book is an inspiring investigation of Italian art in the post-war years, and an unprecedented attempt, at least in terms of a book-length study, to apply to artworks analytical tools derived from autonomous Marxism." - Jacopo Galimberti (Oxford Art Journal) "An ambitious book: it is literally brimming with questions and the invitation to further exploration. . . . It takes up the challenge to think differently about accepted narratives of the neo-avant-garde and of artistic practices in Europe after the Second World War." - Teresa Kittler (Art History)