Space-age aesthetics
Subtitle: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the postwar European avant-garde
By: Stephen Petersen.
Series: Refiguring modernism : arts, literature, sciences
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271033426
Subjects: Fontana, Lucio, -- 1899-1968; Klein, Yves, -- 1928-1962; Art, European -- 20th century; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century
Description: "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.
Notes: "Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction. Space, fiction, and the avant-garde; title: 1. Launching the spatial movement in postwar Milan; title: 2. Avant-garde alienation : Enrico Baj and interplanetary art; title: 3. "Man in space!" : Yves Klein's astronautics; title: 4. Floating "zero"; title: Conclusion. Adventures in inner space; title: Select bibliography.