Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia
by
Jaleh Mansoor
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
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...