Space-Age Aesthetics
Space-Age Aesthetics
Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the Postwar European Avant-Garde
ISBN: 9780271033426
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Explores an international network of artists, artist groups, and critics linked by their aesthetic and theoretical responses to science, science fiction, and new media. Focuses on the Italian Spatial Artist Lucio Fontana and French Painter of Space Yves Klein.
By Stephen Petersen
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 320
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Space, Fiction, and the Avant-Garde
1 Launching the Spatial Movement in Postwar Milan
2 Avant-Garde Alienation: Enrico Baj and Interplanetary Art
3 “Man In Space!”: Yves Klein’s Astronautics
4 Floating “Zero”
Conclusion: Adventures in Inner Space
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