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Space-Age Aesthetics

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

1 Launching the Spatial Movement in Postwar Milan

2 Avant-Garde Alienation: Enrico Baj and Interplanetary Art

3 “Man In Space!”: Yves Klein’s Astronautics

4 Floating “Zero”

Conclusion: Adventures in Inner Space

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