Space-age aesthetics : Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the postwar European avant-garde / Stephen Petersen.

Main entry:

Petersen, Stephen, 1963-

Title & Author:

Space-age aesthetics : Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the postwar European avant-garde / Stephen Petersen.

Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009]

Description:

xv, 292 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Series:

Refiguring modernism ; 11

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Space, fiction, and the avant-garde -- Launching the spatial movement in postwar Milan -- Avant-garde alienation : Enrico Baj and interplanetary art -- "Man in space!" : Yves Klein's astronautics -- Floating "zero" -- Conclusion: Adventures in inner space -- Notes -- Select bibliography.

Summary:

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780271033426 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0271033428 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Fontana, Lucio, 1899-1968.
Klein, Yves, 1928-1962.
Fontana, Lucio 1899-1968
Klein, Yves 1928-1962
Art, European 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) History 20th century.
Art, European.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Avantgarde
Kunst
Europa

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Refiguring modernism ; 11.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268051
Call No.: BIB 199957
Status: Available

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