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PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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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