Space-age aesthetics : Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the postwar European avant-garde / Stephen Pet...
Space-age aesthetics : Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the postwar European avant-garde / Stephen Pet...
Space-age aesthetics : Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the postwar European avant-garde / Stephen Petersen.
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Publisher
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009.
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NQ709.045/5
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Language
English
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Physical content
xv, 292 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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 i...
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Publisher
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009.
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2009.
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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"--Provided by publisher.
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Space-age aesthetics : Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the postwar European avant-garde / Stephen Petersen.
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Refiguring modernism ; 11.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2009.
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NQ709.045/5
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74VvjKaMJ0Al
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvjKaMJ0Al
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ISBN
0271033428 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780271033426 (pbk. : alk. paper)
DDC
709.045
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991015104329702626
