Marshall Plan modernism : Italian postwar abstraction and the beginnings of autonomia / Jaleh Mansoo...
Marshall Plan modernism : Italian postwar abstraction and the beginnings of autonomia / Jaleh Mansoo...
Marshall Plan modernism : Italian postwar abstraction and the beginnings of autonomia / Jaleh Mansoor.
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Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
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G 2016/2514
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Language
English
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Physical content
279 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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...
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Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Place of Publication
North Carolina
Date Published
2016.
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Summary
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 Fo...
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Marshall Plan modernism : Italian postwar abstraction and the beginnings of autonomia / Jaleh Mansoor.
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Italian postwar abstraction and the beginnings of autonomia
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-263) and index.
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©2016
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G 2016/2514
Record Identifier
74VKVq3NVOp3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVq3NVOp3
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ISBN
0822362600 paperback alkaline paper
9780822362456 hardcover alkaline paper
0822362457 hardcover alkaline paper
9780822362609 paperback alkaline paper
DDC
700.9450904
MMS ID
991024007564902626
