Space-Age Aesthetics: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the Postwar European Avant-Garde

by Stephen Petersen

"In the Space Age," wrote Italian artist Lucio Fontana, "spatial art." Fontana's desire to create art in space came in response to unprecedented technological advances and contemporary fantasies of space travel. Fifteen years before Andy Warhol said he wanted to be as much a part of his times as rockets and television, Fontana's large-scale light-and-space installations became a short-lived but ultimately influential art-world phenomenon. The artists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271033428
• ISBN13: 9780271033426
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.1" x 9.7"