Author: Petersen, Stephen.
Title: Space-age aesthetics : Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the postwar European avant-garde.
Description: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University, 2009. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xv, 292 pp. illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. (Refiguring modernism, 11). New in shrinkwrap. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - 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. Contents : 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. ISBN 9780271033426.

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