Lucio Fontana: The Artist's Materials

by Pia Gottschaller

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative post-World War II Italian artists. Best known for his tagli--slashed, mostly monochromatic canvases--Fontana fashioned a remarkably multifaceted oeuvre that encompasses architecture, sculpture, and ceramics, as well as painting. In his quest to expand the vocabulary of his art, Fontana subjected the pictorial surface of his paintings to a remarkable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606061143
• ISBN13: 9781606061145
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.9"