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

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.

About the author

Stephen Petersen is an independent scholar and recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Penn Humanities Forum. He has published articles in Art Journal, Art on Paper, Visual Resources, Science in Context, and The Burlington Magazine.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Petersen, Stephen (University of Delaware) Petersen
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2009
• EAN: 9780271033426
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03342-6
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 241 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 1161 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Series: Refiguring Modernism; Refiguring Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), ART / History / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -