Book Launch: Jaleh Mansoor's "Marshall Plan Modernism"

A book launch for Jaleh Mansoor's "Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Post War Abstraction and the beginnings of Autonomia"

Focusing on the work of Italian artists Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Mansoor's research showed 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 social unrest and anti-capitalist struggle in the Italian 1960s and 1970s.