Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia

by Jaleh Mansoor

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822362600
• ISBN13: 9780822362609
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"