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Lucio Fontana  
Author: Sarah Whitfield
ISBN: 0520226224
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
Lucio Fontana was one of the most influential and innovative figures of twentieth-century Italian art. From his earliest monumental sculptures and collaborations with architects in the 1930s to his spatial environments and slashed canvases of the 1950s and 1960s, Fontana's raw, vigorous, and richly expressive works overturned the conventions of art and challenged existing ideas about the role of the artist in the age of rapid technological development. Throughout his lifetime, Fontana was driven by the spirit of exploration, constantly questioning and extending the boundaries of his own practice, confounding expectations, and provoking and amazing an ever-growing audience. This opulently illustrated and beautifully produced book shows how Fontana redefined the possibilities for art, using a rich vocabulary of material, form, color, and space. Produced to accompany a retrospective exhibition marking the artist's centenary at the Hayward Gallery, this book spans Fontana's prolific career and brings together over 100 of his sculptures and canvases as well as a reconstruction of one of his most physically impressive and distilled spatial environments. An incisive critical essay by Sarah Whitfield provides a more thorough understanding of Fontana's life, influences, and artistic achievements, while excerpts from the atist's writings and interviews give readers a chance to hear his distinctive voice firsthand. An illustrated chronology of Fontana's life and career, an exhibition history, and an annotated bibliography make Lucio Fontana an even more valuable resource.


About the Author
Sarah Whitfield curated the Lucio Fontana exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London.




Lucio Fontana

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Lucio Fontana was one of the most influential and innovative figures of post-war Italian art. From his earliest ceramic sculptures produced in the 1930s to his famous punctured and slashed canvases of the 1950s and 60s, Fontana's raw, vigorous and often intensely beautiful works broke with convention and challenged existing ideas about the work of art and the role of the artist in an age of rapid technological development.

This fully-illustrated catalogue coincides with the Hayward Gallery's retrospective exhibition on the artist and offers the chance to discover one of the most radical artists of this century. It contains over 100 reproductions of Fontana's most significant sculptures and canvases, extracts of the artist's writings and interviews, a critical essay by Sarah Whitfield, as well as an illustrated chronology of the artist's life and career, an exhibition history and annotated bibliography.

     



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