Presented by the Department of Italian Studies and the Program in Critical Theory.

Autonomia: On the Entwinement of “Workerism” and “Aesthetic Autonomy”: Notes on Italy as the Crucible of the (Neo) Avant-Garde.

Mansoor is the author of Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia, published by Duke University Press (September 2016) which explores procedural violence in the work of Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni as an index of a rapidly reintegrating labour-to-capital relationship in the context of European reconstruction.Autonomia: On the Entwinement of “Workerism” and “Aesthetic Autonomy”: Notes on Italy as the Crucible of the (Neo) Avant-Garde.

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