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Jaleh Mansoor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 2007 and has taught at institutions such as SUNY Purchase, Barnard College, Columbia University, and Ohio University. Mansoor specializes in modern contemporary cultural production, focusing on twentieth-century European art, Marxism, Marxist feminism, and critical theory. Her research investigates the relationship between abstraction in art and capitalist social dynamics, exploring themes related to aesthetics and labor. Her notable works include monographic studies on artists like Piero Manzoni, Ed Ruscha, Agnes Martin, Blinky Palermo, Gerhard Richter, and Mona Hatoum. She co-edited the anthology 'Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics', and authored the book 'Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia', which examines how procedural violence is reflected in the works of key artists of the period. Currently, she is working on a new book tentatively titled 'Concrete Abstraction: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Labor'.
University of British Columbia • Vancouver, BC
Teaches courses in modern contemporary cultural production and critical theory.
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.