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Space-Age Aesthetics: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the Postwar European Avant-Garde Paperback - 2009

by Stephen Petersen

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"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 discussed in Space-Age Aesthetics looked beyond the limits of the picture, exploring space, mass media, pop culture, nuclear power, and science fiction to connect new art to the dramatic changes taking place through the encroaching Space Age.

Space-Age Aesthetics begins by addressing the imagery of space exploration as a field of mythical representation informed by Cold War politics and acted out in an expansive variety of media, from the picture press to comic books. Through persuasive arguments that reveal the many-layered interconnections between the artists' aesthetics and theoretical responses to the dawn of an age of revolutionary technologies, this book offers new ways to think about the historical emergence of pop, conceptual, postmodern, and installation art and serves to fill the long-neglected gap in material on the post-World War II European avant-garde.

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  • Title Space-Age Aesthetics: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the Postwar European Avant-Garde
  • Author Stephen Petersen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penn State University Press, University Park, PA
  • Publication date 2009-07-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780271033426 / 0271033428
  • Weight 2.55 lbs (1.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.7 x 8.1 x 1 in (24.64 x 20.57 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Art Aspects
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects Art, European - 20th century, Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - History - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008041065
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.045

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.

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