Lucio Fontana: Between Utopia and Kitsch

by Anthony White

A new view of Fontana showing how the artist combined modernist aesthetics with outmoded forms of kitsch.

In 1961, a solo exhibition by Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana met with a scathing critical response from New York art critics. Fontana (1899-1968), well known in Europe for his series of slashed monochrome paintings, offered New York ten canvases slashed and punctured, thickly painted in luridly brilliant hues and embellished with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262526158
• ISBN13: 9780262526159
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher